Centaur (copy)
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- Type
- sculpture
- Genre
- mythological painting
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Object description
Centaurs (Greek: Κένταυρος) are wild mortal creatures with horse bodies and human heads and torsos, inhabitants of mountains and forest thickets, companions of the god of wine Dionysus in ancient Greek mythology. Initially, centaurs personified mountain rivers and stormy streams and appeared as tutors or opponents of heroes. The bronze sculpture of a centaur from the collection of Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery is one of numerous copies of the "Young Centaur", one of the two so-called Furietti Centaurs, which were found in 1736 during the excavations of Hadrian's Villa, Hellenistic sculptures made of dark marble, probably by Aristeas and Papias from the city of Aphrodisias in Asia Minor. The first owner of the works was Cardinal Furietti, and later, they became part of the collection of sculptures of the Popes in the Vatican.
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