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Bronze man and centaur (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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.

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.

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