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The Victorious Youth, also known as the Atleta di Fano, the Lisippo di Fano, or the Getty Bronze, is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, [1] in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. The Victorious Youth was found in the summer of 1964 in the sea off Fano ...
The Vatican Apoxyomenos by Lysippus, in the Museo Pio-Clementino, found in Trastevere, 1849.Height: 2.05 metres (6 feet 9 inches) Apoxyomenos (Greek: Αποξυόμενος, plural apoxyomenoi: [1] the "Scraper") is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small ...
The Croatian Apoxyomenos (Croatian: Hrvatski Apoksiomen) is an Ancient Greek statue cast in bronze in the 2nd or 1st century BC; it was discovered in 1996 on the bottom of the sea near the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule, southeast of the island of Lošinj. It represents an athlete – Apoxyomenos ('the Scraper') – in the act of scraping sweat ...
Statue and hero-cult. Pausanias relates a story regarding a statue of Theagenes made by Glaucias of Aegina. A man in Thasos had a grudge against Theagenes for his victories, and scourged the statue by way of revenge. One night, the statue fell upon this man, killing him. The statue was put on trial for murder, found guilty, and exiled by being ...
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. Its Greek original in bronze lost, the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones ...
Myron of Eleutherae (480–440 BC) (Ancient Greek: Μύρων, Myrōn [mý.rɔːn]) was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. [1] He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Natural History, a Latin encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – 79), a scholar in Ancient Rome, Ageladas of Argos was his ...
Riace bronzes. The Riace bronzes (Italian: Bronzi di Riace, [ˈbrondzi di riˈaːtʃe]), also called the Riace Warriors, are two full-size Greek bronze statues of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–450 BC [1] that were found in the sea in 1972 near Riace, Calabria, in southern Italy. The bronzes are now in the Museo Nazionale della Magna ...
The Antikythera Ephebe, registered as Bronze statue of a youth in the museum collections, [1] is a Greek bronze statue of a young man of languorous grace that was found in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. It was the first of the series of Greek bronze sculptures that ...
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