Old Centaur - statue CensusID: 10039946

Old Centaur - statue CensusID: 10039946

Old Centaur - statue
CensusID: 10039946
Alias
Older Centaur
Furietti Centaur
Location
Roma, Musei Capitolini
Inventory no. inv. 658
Description
Class
Type
sculpture
statue
inscription
Material
marble
marble: bigio morato
Present Condition damaged/fragmentary
restored
Original
no
Number
01
Descriptive Details figure
male
standing
nude
animal
horse
mature
bearded
with a pained expression
hands bound tightly behind his back
mythological
centaur
cupid missing, that once rode the back of the centaur
Dimensions
names in inscription (Greek):
Αριστεας
Παπιας
height: 134 cm
History
Date of Creation
Style
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
Preservation Event(s)
Hadrian
Hellenistic
Aristeas and Papias
Date
1736/1737
Action
excavated
Person responsible Cardinal Furietti, Giuseppe Alessandro
Note(s)
found by cardinal Furietti in the cupola hall of the
so-called academy in the villa Hadriana in Tivoli
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
unknown
restored
unknown
parts of hair, beard and coat
left eyebrow
several fingers
middle part of left foreleg
Provenance
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Provenance Event(s) Date
1736/1737
Location Tivoli, Hadrian's Villa, Accademia
Person
Cardinal Furietti, Giuseppe Alessandro
responsible
Note(s)
found by cardinal Furietti in the cupola hall of the so-called
academy in the villa Hadriana in Tivoli
Date
Location
1736-1764
Roma, Furietti Collection
Date
1764
Person
Clement XIII
responsible
Note(s)
purchased
Relationships
Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002) > book 2 > ch. 4 > p. 792 > ll. 04-07
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 489 > ll. 17-20
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > pp. 803/805 > ll. 29-04
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 279 > ll. 33-34
> Foggini 1782 > book 6 (plates) > pl. 32
Parallel Replica(s) known to Renaissance:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: Old Centaur with Eros - statue
References
Bibliography:
> Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, Adolf H. Borbein et al.: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums,
Katalog der antiken Denkmäler, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johannes
Irmscher, Max Kunze, Mainz 2006 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlass IV.2) > p.
222, no. 484
> Stuart Jones, Henry: A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures preserved in the Municipal Collections of
Rome, I: The Sculptures of the Museo Capitolino, Oxford 1912 > pp. 277-278, no. 4
> Wolfgang Helbig: Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 4 vols.,
Tübingen 1963-1972 > vol. II, pp. 203-204, no. 1398
> Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny: Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900,
New Haven/London 1981 > pp. 178-179, no. 20
> Klaus Kell: Formuntersuchungen zu spät- und nachhellenistischen Gruppen, Saarbrücken 1988 >
pp. 29ff.
> Cavaceppi, Bartolomeo: Raccolta d'antiche statue, buste, bassirilievi ed altre sculture restaurate da
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, 3 vols, Roma 1768-1772 > vol. I, no. 26-27
> Seymour Howard: Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, New York 1982 > p. 241, nos. 2-3
> Joachim Raeder: Die statuarische Ausstattung der Villa Hadriana bei Tivoli, Frankfurt 1983 > pp. 6364, cat. no. I 46.47, pp. 236ff., 293-294
> Georg Morawietz: Der gezähmte Kentaur, München 2000 > pp. 89-120
> Georg Morawietz: Die Kentauren des Aristeas und Papias und die Repliken der beiden
Statuentypen, Antike Plastik 29 (2005), pp. 47-67 > pp. 47-49
> Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunze: Ville e palazzi di Roma, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Mainz 2003 (Johann
Joachim Winckelmann: Schriften und Nachlaß 5,1) > p. 274
Comment
inserted by:
Thomas Fröhlich
The statue is generally assumed to be a copy of a late 2nd century BC bronze Hellenistic original. (cf.
Katalog Denkmäler 2006)
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