ECL-Bm.1:54-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.1:54-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Four centaurs hold portrait tondo
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Two pairs of centaurs pull two chariots to the centre. In that in the left rides Dionysus, nude and holding cup and thyrsus, accompanied by small Pan, a putto holding a torch, and a maenad piping. In the chariot on right. is Ariadne, draped, holding a thyrsus and with grapes in her hair. She is accompanied by a Pan and a maenad holding a bowl (?). Of each pair of centaurs, the one in the background supports a tondo in the centre, which contains portraits of a man and his wife. Of the centaurs in the foreground, the one on left plays a lyre, the other pours wine from a horn into a cantharos for a putto to drink. Along the bottom of the relief are small figures arranged symmetrically: in centre Pan and a ram butting one another while a Silenus with thyrsus and pine leaves stands in the background. A putto stands watching on each side, while on right a Pan rides up on a panther, on left a putto on a ram. On each side beyond, a putto with a pedum looks in surprise at a snake emerging from an open cista.
Content (object)
drawing
Dimensions
height (actual size): 484mm
width (actual size): 750mm
width (actual size): 750mm
Inscription
Villa Borghese. Facciata seconda. Quattro centauri, Bacco in carro, due ritratti in un medaglione
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Ciferri, Bernardino (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Montelatici (161)
• Louvre (Ma 1013)
• Charbonneaux (235)
• Louvre (Ma 1013)
• Charbonneaux (235)
