古老的半人马红色躯干 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	古老的半人马红色躯干
品名（英）	Rosso antico torso of a centaur
入馆年号	1909年，09.221.6
策展部门	希腊和罗马艺术（Greek and Roman Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1 - 公元 2
创作地区
分类	石雕（Stone Sculpture）
尺寸	高 17 1/2 英寸 (44.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	公元前2世纪希腊雕像的复制品在古典时期，半马半人的半人马神话生物在希腊人看来代表了人类的野性和不文明的一面，但到公元前二世纪，它们变得更加温顺，与爱神厄洛斯和狄奥尼索斯的随从一起出现在田园公园般的环境中。这具用罗索安第科雕刻的强壮躯干来自一尊年轻的半人马雕像。它附着在一匹马的身体上，一定是用不同颜色的大理石雕刻的。最初的希腊化雕像可能是青铜雕像，是一对半人马中的一对，一老一小，旨在一起观看。一个婴儿厄洛斯跨在每个人的背上，煽动年轻的男性，抑制年老的男性，令人心酸地唤起性衰退。许多罗马复制品幸存下来；1736年，在罗马附近的哈德良别墅（Hadrian’s Villa）发现了用黑色大理石雕刻的最著名的一对，现在它们是罗马卡皮托林博物馆（Capitoline Museum）最著名的古代作品之一。
介绍（英）	Copy of a Greek statue of the 2nd century B.C. During the Classical period, centaurs—mythical creatures, half horse and half man—represented to the Greeks the wild, uncivilized aspects of man, but by the second century B.C., they were far more tame and appeared in bucolic park-like settings together with Eros, god of love, and the entourage of Dionysos. This powerful torso carved in rosso antico comes from a statue of a young centaur. It was attached to the body of a horse that must have been carved in a different color marble. The original Hellenistic statue was probably bronze and one of a pair of centaurs, one old and one young, that were meant to be viewed together. A baby Eros straddled the back of each, inciting the young male and restraining the old one in a poignant evocation of sexual decline. A number of Roman copies survive; the most celebrated pair, carved in black marble, was found in 1736 at Hadrian’s Villa near Rome, and they are now among the most famous ancient works in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.