Borghese Warrior
- Title:
- Borghese Warrior
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Agasias of Ephesus, son of Dositheus
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 100 BCE
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Anzio, Italy (discovery site, early 17th c.) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Anzio, Italy (discovery site, early 17th c.) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0129a
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 320
99 in front of plinth
129 - File Name:
- CCC_0129a.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 199 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Ancient warfare
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from side
- Measurement:
- 154 (with socle) (centimeters, height)
socle: 8.5 x 116 x 96.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter) - Description:
- This is a fragment from the damaged cast of the Borghese Warrior, a marble, nude, male combatant in action housed in the Louvre. Preserved here is the right forearm of the figure, hand gripped tightly around a sword hilt. The upper part of the forearm is cracked and partially caved in. The fragment has been stained by dripping liquid.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. MR 224 - Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 221-224
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911),15
W. M. Ramsey, Modern Athletics and Greek Art: Notes on the Borghese Gladiator and the Apobates-Relief of the Acropolis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1885) (available online): http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=a-sHAAAAQAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Borghese+warrior&ots=teNRrzehPK&sig=LhFhDUjTVbT1xmRsCJ-Yxj8bDno#v=onepage&q=Borghese%20warrior&f=false - Related Work:
- Belongs with ID no. 129.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (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.