Description
Reduced copies of the Furietti centaurs Fire-gilt bronze. With base H 29 and 32.5 cm respectively. Italy, late 18th / 19th century. The two bronze sculptures are copies of Hellenistic or Roman statues made of gray-black marble from Laconia (Greece), which are now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The hands of the older centaur are tied behind his back, while the younger one is smiling and walking with his arm raised. Erotes originally sat on them, as in the preserved older centaur in the Louvre. The two sculptures were excavated in 1736 by Cardinal Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti (1684 - 1764) in Hadrian's villa in Tivoli and are named after him. Provenance Italian private collection.
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Reduced copies of the Furietti centaurs Fire-gilt bronze. With base H 29 and 32.5 cm respectively. Italy, late 18th / 19th century. The two bronze sculptures are copies of Hellenistic or Roman statues made of gray-black marble from Laconia (Greece), which are now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The hands of the older centaur are tied behind his back, while the younger one is smiling and walking with his arm raised. Erotes originally sat on them, as in the preserved older centaur in the Louvre. The two sculptures were excavated in 1736 by Cardinal Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti (1684 - 1764) in Hadrian's villa in Tivoli and are named after him. Provenance Italian private collection.
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