Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Apoxyomenos
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Apoxyomenos
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Image View:
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Overall view from the front
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Creator:
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after Lysippos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 370-ca. 300 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 1185
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Location Note:
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Museo Pio-Clementino
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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Greek original, 320-310 BCE (other); Roman copy, 41-54 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek; Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Classical; Greco-Roman
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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Pentelic marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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2.05 m (height)
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Subjects:
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human figure; recreation and games; festivals; athletic games; athlete
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Description:
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Statue of Apoxyomenos (the one who cleanses) which represents a young athlete in the act of taking off, with a strigile, a layer of oil, which was spread abundantly on the skin before athletic games. Roman copy (Claudian period, 41-54 CE) from an original bronze of Lysippos of 320-310 BCE. The statue was discovered in 1849 in Trastevere. (Source: Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) [website]; http://www.museivaticani.va/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-G-VM-APOX-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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