Borghese Gladiator
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1890 - 1940
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
192 mm (H); 92 mm (D)
Place of origin
Europe
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651345
Summary
Bronze sculpture, Borghese Galdiator. A figurine of a nude gladiator on rectangular base. Body thrusts forward, shield over left arm. Right sword blade lost.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 43