Old Centaur Ridden by Eros
- Title:
- Old Centaur Ridden by Eros
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
first half of the 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
ca. 2nd c. BCE (Hellenistic original)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Villa Fonseca, Rome, Italy (discovery site, 17th c.) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Villa Fonseca, Rome, Italy (discovery site, 17th c.) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0531
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 341
531 - File Name:
- CCC_0531.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 147 (H) x 107 (W) x 52 (D) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Hellenistic Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Hellenistic Greek
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Eros (Greek deity)
Centaurs - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 34.5 (centimeters, height)
- Description:
- This is the bent right (proper) front leg of the Centaur from a cast of a marble group of an old Centaur ridden by Eros from the Louvre's Borghese Collection. For the remainder of the statue, see ID no. 180.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. Ma 562 - Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 179
- Related Work:
- Belongs with ID no. 180.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.