The Lansdowne Athlete

Roman Sculpture
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The Lansdowne Athlete

Rome, Roman, 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D. copy after a Greek original of circa 340-330 B.C. by Lysippos
Sculpture
Marble
including base: 71 × 23 × 20 1/2 in. (180.34 × 58.42 × 52.07 cm) Other (chin to crown of head): 10 in. (25.4 cm) Base: 3 3/4 in. (9.53 cm) Weight: 1000 lb. (453.6 kg)
William Randolph Hearst Collection (49.23.12)
Greek, Roman and Etruscan Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Howard, Seymour. "Some Eighteenth-Century 'Restored' Boxers." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 56 (1993): 238-255.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Howard, Seymour. "Some Eighteenth-Century 'Restored' Boxers." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 56 (1993): 238-255.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Herrmann, John J., Jr. and Christine Kondoleon. Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Transformation: the LACMA Campaign. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 2008.

  • Angelicoussis, Elizabeth. Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles. Munich: Hirmer, 2017.

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