Although discovered at Hadrian's Villa as late as 1736 by Monsignor Furietti, the Centaurs soon established themselves as among the most admired of all classical statues. Indeed, Pope Benedict XIV was reputedly so incensed with Furietti for refusing to present them to the Capitoline Museum, as his heirs were to do, that he passed him over for a cardinal's hat. As is often the case with bronze copies of the pair, the treestumps that support the creatures 'bellies are omitted (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.).