Apoxyomenos
- Title:
- Apoxyomenos
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (Roman copy)
attributed to Lysippos (Greek original)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
1st c. CE (Roman copy)
ca. 320 BCE (Greek original)
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Trastevere, Rome, Italy (discovery site, 1849) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Trastevere, Rome, Italy (discovery site, 1849) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0116a
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 119
119 (new sticker on socle and left arm)
card tied to ancle: „Tunnel"
116 - File Name:
- CCC_0116a.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 205 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Athletes
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Description:
- This is a cast of a Roman copy of the Apoxyomenos, a statue of an athlete scraping himself with a strigil attributed to Lysippos. It is housed in the Vatican. In its complete form, the lean, muscular figure stands in contrapposto with his left leg straightened and his right leg resting back. He extends his right arm in front of him and reaches across his body with his left hand to scrape the arm with a strigil. He turns his head very slightly to his right and looks calmly ahead. This record represents the partially preserved head of the athlete and his neck. The top of the head is broken away to the upper bridge of the nose so that the left eye is missing but the right is preserved. A metal dowel protrudes at the heavily chipped neck join.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Museo Pio Clementino no. 1185 - Bibliography:
- Paolo Moreno, Lisippo, L'Arte e la Fortuna (Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1995), 196-205, esp. 201
Andrew Stewart, Greek Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 187, 291, and fig. 554 - Related Work:
- ID nos. 116 and 116a belong together.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Vatican Museums (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.