Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing of the Discobolus Lancellotti, a 2nd-century A.D. Roman marble, full-scale copy of Myron’s lost 5th-century B.C. bronze statue of a discus thrower. Discovered in 1781 in Rome, it is one of the best-preserved, most admired examples of Classical athletic art, depicting a harmonious, dynamic pose.
Found on Rome’s Esquiline Hill in 1781 at the Villa Palombara, it was later owned by the Lancellotti family and is now housed in the National Roman Museum (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).
It is considered the most complete and accurate replica of the original masterpiece. Unlike others, it has undergone minimal restoration.
The statue captures a fleeting moment of intense action with a perfectly balanced, idealized physique. The head is looking back towards the discus, a detail sometimes debated in other copies.
The Austrian Painter acquired the statue in 1938 as a symbol of Germanic beauty, but it was returned to Italy in 1948.
The statue is widely considered a masterpiece of, and essential to the study of, ancient Greek and Roman art.
