Is the Boxer of Quirinal the most awesome of all ancient sculptures in bronze?
filed in Xdela Community on Jun.02, 2010
I personally dont care a fig for those who muscly bronze youths pulled out of the water near Regio. The Quirinal boxers seems like the baddest of the in close fighters of ancient times. Just looking at him turns my colon to mush and brings on a mudslide of fear. Look at his ravaged mug. He makes the MMA elite look like beardless choirboys. If any of his sort are walking the earth today I am going into hiding.
June 2nd, 2010 on 11:26 am
I agree whole heartily.
June 2nd, 2010 on 11:26 am
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.