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Bronze man and centaur (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
8th century BC bronze sculpture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Year | 8th century BCE (Julian) |
Medium | bronze |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Accession No. | 17.190.2072 ![]() |
Identifiers | The Met object ID: 249228 |
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The sculpture was a posthumous gift of J. Pierpont Morgan given to the Metropolitan Museum in 1917.[1]