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Chimera of Arezzo
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The bronze "Chimera of Arezzo" is one of the best known examples of the art of the Etruscans.
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It was found in Arezzo, an ancient Etruscan and Roman city in Tuscany, in and was quickly claimed for the collection of the MediciGrand Duke of TuscanyCosimo I, who placed it publicly in the Palazzo Vecchio, and placed the smaller bronzes from the trove in his own studiolo at Palazzo Pitti, where "the Duke took great pleasure in cleaning them by himself, with some goldsmith's tools," Benvenuto Cellini reported in his autobiography.
The Chimera is still conserved in Florence, now in the Archaeological Museum. It is approximately 80 cm in height.
In Greek mythology the monstruous Chimera ravaged its homeland, Lycia, until it was slain by Bellerophon.
This bronze was at first identified as a lion by its discoverers in Arezzo, for its tail, which would have taken the form of a se