Torso of the Diadoumenos

Original: ca. 430 BCE; Roman copy: 1st century BCE-4th century CE (Classical-Roman)

49.8 cm 92.4 cm 34.6 cm

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This powerful torso was part of a copy of the "Diadoumenos," a Greek statue by the famous master sculptor Polykleitos that has not survived. The original depicted a youthful nude athlete with both arms raised to tie a ribbon, the prize of athletic victory, around his head. The...

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Villa Borghese (?). Stefano Bardini, Florence, before 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Bardini Sale, American Art Association, New York, April 1918, no. 427; William Boyce Thompson, Yonkers, 1918, by purchase; Elizabeth Seton College, Yonkers, 1945, by bequest; Mr. and Mrs. James E. LePere, New York, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1968, by purchase.
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