Lost Wax bronze replica

Artist: Agasias of Ephesus
Period: 100 B.C.
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

This statue was casually discovered before 1611, at Nettuno south of Rome, among the ruins of a seaside palace of Nerone on the site of the ancient Antium. When discovered it was broken 17 different pieces.
The sculpture was added to the Borghese collection in Rome.
From the attitude of the figure it is clear that the statue represents a gladiator, a warrior in the moment of contending against an enemy and defending himself with a shield, presumably in bronze, that he held in his left raised arm.
Camillo Borghese was pressured to sell it to his brother-in-law, Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1807; it was taken to Paris when the Borghese collection was acquired for the Louvre, where it now resides.

Material

Bronze

Size

H.170 cm x L.170 cm x p.115 cm

Weight

250 kg

CODE

BRG0005

Gladiatore Borghese roman full figure greek male athlete Louvre Museum