The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze. The original 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. The original sculptor is believed to have been Epigonus, a court sculptor of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon.
Engraving by François Perrier of the Dying Gladiator statue in the Capitoline Museums of Rome. The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze.
According to Attanasio et al, their provenance analysis proves that the marble used in the Dying Gaul is white Docimian marble. Provenance →
The Dying Gaul was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the Ludovisi family. History →
The Dying Galatian became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was first engraved by François Perrier in his work Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638, plate 91). Influence →
Back of the sculpture. The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze.
According to Attanasio et al, their provenance analysis proves that the marble used in the Dying Gaul is white Docimian marble. Provenance →
The Dying Gaul was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the Ludovisi family. History →
The Dying Galatian became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was first engraved by François Perrier in his work Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638, plate 91). Influence →
Detail showing the face, hairstyle and torc of the sculpture
Detail showing the face, hairstyle and torc of the sculpture. The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze.
According to Attanasio et al, their provenance analysis proves that the marble used in the Dying Gaul is white Docimian marble. Provenance →
The Dying Gaul was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the Ludovisi family. History →
The Dying Galatian became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was first engraved by François Perrier in his work Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638, plate 91). Influence →
Detail showing his neck torc. The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze.
According to Attanasio et al, their provenance analysis proves that the marble used in the Dying Gaul is white Docimian marble. Provenance →
The Dying Gaul was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the Ludovisi family. History →
The Dying Galatian became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was first engraved by François Perrier in his work Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638, plate 91). Influence →
The Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome. The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze.
According to Attanasio et al, their provenance analysis proves that the marble used in the Dying Gaul is white Docimian marble. Provenance →
The Dying Gaul was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the Ludovisi family. History →
The Dying Galatian became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was first engraved by François Perrier in his work Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638, plate 91). Influence →
Galata capitolino, replica da donario di attalo I, da horti sallustiani, coll. ludovisi 08
Sideview of the dying trumpeter. The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been made in bronze.
According to Attanasio et al, their provenance analysis proves that the marble used in the Dying Gaul is white Docimian marble. Provenance →
The Dying Gaul was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the Ludovisi family. History →
The Dying Galatian became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was first engraved by François Perrier in his work Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase (Rome and Paris 1638, plate 91). Influence →
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