Bronze man and centaur (Metropolitan Museum of Art) explained

Bronze man and centaur is an 8th century BC bronze sculpture, created in Greece during the mid-8th century BC, in the period of Archaic Greece. It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^{[1] [2]}

The sculpture was a posthumous gift of J. Pierpont Morgan given to the Metropolitan Museum in 1917.

Description

The work depicts a man and centaur embracing. The bottom of the sculpture contains a geometric pattern.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bronze man and centaur. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2. Web site: The Technique of Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece. www.metmuseum.org. 2019-07-25.
3. Web site: Geometric Art in Ancient Greece. www.metmuseum.org. 2019-07-25.