Furietti Centaurs

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The Furietti Centaurs are a pair of celebrated Roman marble sculptures depicting an old and a young centaur, renowned for their expressive contrast of suffering and joy and their influence on later classical art collections.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Capitoline Centaur type 1
Furietti Centaurs canonical 1
Old Furietti Centaur 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Roman sculpture pair ⓘ
classical sculpture ⓘ
marble sculpture ⓘ
acquisitionMethod confiscated from Furietti’s collection for the Capitoline Museums ⓘ
approximateDate 2nd century CE ⓘ
artHistoricalSignificance important for study of Roman taste for Hellenistic pathos ⓘ
key example of Roman copies of Greek originals ⓘ
artMovement Roman Imperial art ⓘ
basedOn Hellenistic Greek originals ⓘ
collection Musei Capitolini ⓘ
linked to: Capitoline Museums
countryOfOrigin Ancient Rome ⓘ
linked to: Roman Antiquity
currentCity Rome ⓘ
depictionType freestanding statuary group ⓘ
depicts centaur ⓘ
old centaur ⓘ
young centaur ⓘ
discoveredAt Hadrian’s Villa ⓘ
discoveredBy Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti ⓘ
discoveredIn 1736 ⓘ
genre mythological sculpture ⓘ
hasInscription signature of Aristeas of Aphrodisias ⓘ
signature of Papias of Aphrodisias ⓘ
hasPart Old Furietti Centaur ⓘ
linked to: Furietti Centaurs

Young Furietti Centaur ⓘ
linked to: Furietti Centaurs
iconography Dionysian imagery ⓘ
erotic and bacchic themes ⓘ
influenced 18th-century casts and replicas across Europe ⓘ
18th-century classical art collections ⓘ
neoclassical sculpture collecting ⓘ
inscriptionLanguage Greek ⓘ
location Capitoline Museums ⓘ
Rome ⓘ
materialUsed marble ⓘ
museumCollection Capitoline Museums, Rome ⓘ
linked to: Capitoline Museums
namedAfter Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti ⓘ
notableFor expressive contrast of suffering and joy ⓘ
highly finished Hellenistic style ⓘ
originallyFrom Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli ⓘ
ownerAtDiscovery Pope Benedict XIV ⓘ
relatedTheme Dionysian revelry and its consequences ⓘ
relatedWork Capitoline Centaur type ⓘ
linked to: Furietti Centaurs
sculptor Aristeas of Aphrodisias ⓘ
Papias of Aphrodisias ⓘ
stylePeriod Hadrianic period ⓘ
subjectMatter contrast between youthful pleasure and aged suffering ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Capitoline Museums → containsWork → Furietti Centaurs ⓘ
Furietti Centaurs → hasPart → Old Furietti Centaur ⓘ
linked to: Furietti Centaurs
Furietti Centaurs → hasPart → Young Furietti Centaur ⓘ
linked to: Furietti Centaurs
Furietti Centaurs → relatedWork → Capitoline Centaur type ⓘ
linked to: Furietti Centaurs