Boxer of Quirinal
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The bronze Boxer of Quirinal, also known as the Terme Boxer, is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture from the first century B.C of a sitting boxer with cestus. It is one of the two unrelated bronzes[1] discovered on the slopes of the Quirinal within a month of each other in 1885, possibly from the remains of the Baths of Constantine. The realism of the portraiture suggests that it is a particular boxer, with a boxer's scars and broken nose, and not a representation of Polydeuces, one of the Dioscuri.
In preparation for the exhibition of both Quirinal bronzes at the Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, in the summer of 1989, celebrating the second millennium of the city's founding, both bronzes were meticulously conserved and published by Nikolaus Himmelmann.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The other is the unidentified Hellenistic Ruler.
[edit] References
- Nikolaus Himmelmann, 1998. Herrscher und Athlet : Die Bronzen vom Quirinal (Milan: Olivetti). Exhibition catalogue, Bonn.
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