The Furietti Centaurs Pair - Life-Size Bronze Statues

SKU: SCAN3913025
The Furietti Centaurs Pair - Life-Size Bronze Statues

The Furietti Centaurs Pair - Life-Size Bronze Statues

SKU: SCAN3913025
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    • Dimensions

      Height: 89.7"

    • Material

      Foundry Cast Bronze
      Patina
      Marble

      • Furietti Centaurs in Pair - Statues in Bronze, reduction after the originals (known as the Old Centaur and Young Centaur, or Older Centaur and Younger Centaur, when being treated separately), a pair of Hellenistic or Roman grey-black marble sculptures of centaurs based on Hellenistic models. One is a mature, bearded centaur, with a pained expression, and the other is a young smiling centaur with his arm raised. The amorini are missing that once rode the backs of these centaurs, which are the outstanding examples of a group of sculptures varying the motif. The sculptures were found together at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli by Monsignor Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti in December 1736; they were the outstanding pieces of his collection of antiquities, which he refused to give to Pope Benedict XIV— at the cost of a cardinal's hat. Furietti was eventually created cardinal priest, by Pope Clement XIII in the consistory of 24 September 1759. After the cardinal's death, his heirs sold the centaurs and the Furietti mosaic of four drinking doves for 14,000 scudi, and they have been in the Capitoline Museum ever since.

        Centaur is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

        Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses.Centaurs may best be explained as the creation of a folktale in which wild inhabitants of the mountains and savage spirits of the forests. In early art they were portrayed as human beings in front, with the body and hindlegs of a horse attached to the back; later, they were men only as far as the waist.

        Please note there can be slight differences between the color of the item you receive and the pictures on the website due to the handmade nature of the product. The important thing to note is that the patina is not a paint but a very thin conversion coat on the surface of the bronze.

      • Origin

        Europe

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