The Old Centaur from Hadrian's Villa

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Nicola Onofri (after)
,
Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (engravers (printmakers))

Date

1738

Period

18th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The statue, with its companion the 'Young Centaur' (inv. 2015-KX-1), were found in the gardens of the Hadrians Villa in 1736 and are today in the Capitoline Museum. Both prints that Frezza executed after the two sculptures were dedicated to Giuseppe Alessandro Furetto.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Nicola Onofri , Giovanni Girolamo Frezza
Types burin engraving , reproductive prints AAT
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 443 x 272 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2015-KX-2
Description
Subjects figures (representations) , animal paintings , mythologies (religious concept)
Tags names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (VILLA ADRIANA) Iconclass, centaurs Iconclass, Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, adult man Iconclass, horse Iconclass, names of cities and villages (ROME) Iconclass, excavation ~ archaeology Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-KX-2
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/9110/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-KX-2
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