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The Dying Gaul Or Dying Gladiator

$4,446.00

The Dying Gaul sculpture is an ancient Roman marble statue now in the Capitoline Museum in Rome and it is a copy of a now lost sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze and may have been commissioned at some time between 230 and 220 BC by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians, the Celtic or Gaulish people of parts of Anatolia (modern Turkey).  The original sculptor is believed to have been Epigonus, a court sculptor of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon.  The sculpture of the Dying Gaul is also called The Dying Gladiator, The Dying Galatian, Galata Morente in Italian.

The sculpture is beautiful in details showing the bleeding wound of the gladiator in his right side ribs from a sword, the veins in his arms, his hair and his overall musculature.

The base features an inscription: “Galata Morente/After Pietro Angeletti/1758-1786”

Dimensions:

Height: 31 cm / 12.20 inches

Width: 60 cm / 23.62 inches

Weight: 11.9 Kg / 26.23 lbs.

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The Dying Gaul or Dying Gladiator is a famous Roman sculpture, a copy of a Greek marble one. This Dying Gaul bronze sculpture is beautiful in its details.

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