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.

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

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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

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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