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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 3164130, member: 93702&quot;]Can never have too many Centaurs!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]812998[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="5"><b>Capitoline Centaurs</b></font></p><p>The sculptures were found together at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Villa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Villa" rel="nofollow">Hadrian&#039;s Villa</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoli,_Italy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoli,_Italy" rel="nofollow">Tivoli</a> by Monsignor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Alessandro_Furietti" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Alessandro_Furietti" rel="nofollow">Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti</a> in December 1736; they were the outstanding pieces of his collection of antiquities, which he refused to give to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XIV" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XIV" rel="nofollow">Pope Benedict XIV</a>— at the cost of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" rel="nofollow">cardinal</a>&#039;s hat. Furietti was eventually created cardinal priest, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_XIII" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_XIII" rel="nofollow">Pope Clement XIII</a> in the consistory of 24 September 1759. After the cardinal&#039;s death, his heirs sold the centaurs and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Furietti_mosaic&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Furietti_mosaic&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Furietti mosaic</a> of four drinking doves for 14,000 <i>scudi</i>, and they have been in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Museum" rel="nofollow">Capitoline Museum</a> ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furietti_Centaurs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furietti_Centaurs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furietti_Centaurs</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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