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Roman copies of 5th-century BC Greek sculptures (24 P) Pages in category "Roman copies of Greek sculptures" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian [2] (Italian: Galata Morente) or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze. [3]
The Athena Giustiniani, a Roman copy of a Greek statue of Pallas Athena (Vatican Museums) Engraving from the Galleria Giustiniana, c. 1630–1640 (the first publication of the statue) The Athena Giustiniani or Minerva Giustiniani is a Roman marble statue of Pallas Athena , based on a Greek bronze sculpture of the late 5th–early 4th century BCE.
The Ludovisi Gaul (sometimes called "The Galatian Suicide") is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dead body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a now lost Greek bronze original. The Ludovisi Gaul can be found today in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. This statue is unique ...
Roman bronze reproduction of Myron's Discobolus, 2nd century AD (Glyptothek, Munich) 3D model of a replica at National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark.. The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus.
The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture. Many examples of even the most famous Greek sculptures, such as the Apollo Belvedere and Barberini Faun , are known only from Roman Imperial or Hellenistic "copies".
A well-preserved, Roman period copy of the statue in Pentelic marble, purchased in 1986 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), has received some attention in recent years. [9] This copy is 1.98 m high and dates to the first century BC or first century AD. [9]
This sculpture is a Roman copy of a Greek original, possibly by Alcamenes; Lewis Richard Farnell suggested that "the not infrequent repetition of the type suggests a Greek original of some celebrity." [1] It is now in the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums. It is also sometimes identified as a Ceres. The right arm and the nose are ...
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