#townley discobolus

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Detail of the Townley Discobolus, a Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze by Myron. While the copy dates to the 2nd century CE, the original bronze would have been dated to 460-450 BCE.

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Detail of the Townley Discobolus, a Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze by Myron. While the copy dates to the 2nd century CE, the original bronze would have been dated to 460-450 BCE. Discovered at emperor Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli, the Townley Discobolus is currently located in the British Museum.

It should be noted that the head of this Discobolus was "wrongly restored,” in the words of the British Museum. The original statue would have had the head turned over the shoulder to watch the discus. 

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Castelporziano Discobolus, ca. 2nd c. AD & Del Medico, Giuseppe. Anatomia per uso dei pittori e scultori, copperplate engraving.

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Myron   (ca. 480 - 420 BC)

Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) Lost bronze original ca. 450 BC.

Of the numerous Roman copies, the only complete one is the Lancelotti copy.

The Lancellotti Discobolus was part of the Lancellotti family collection in Palazzo Massimo Lancellotti in Rome. Purchased in 1938 by Adolf Hitler, it remained in the Gipsoteca of Munich. Repatriated in 1948, displayed in 1953 at the Museo Nazionale (Rome) and today beside the fragments of the Discobolus of Castelporziano at the Museo delle Terme (Rome).

The Townley Diskobolos copy has an incorrectly restored head, that was allegedly found nearby when it was excavated in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli. It was common in the eighteenth century to “restore” ancient sculptures without proof that the restored elements  actually belonged together: clients and collctors generally desired completeness rather than authenticity. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-43

The Political Uses of a Figure of Male Beauty from Antiquity: “Discobolus” remains a cautionary tale... - Hyperallergic, Sarah E. Bond, 2018

https://artsupp.com/en/artisti/anonimo/discobolo-lancellotti

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-43

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron

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Discus-thrower (The Townley Discobolus), Roman copy of a bronze original of the 5th century B.C.E., attributed to Myron, from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy © Trustees of the British Museum

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The British Museum Puts 1.9 Million Images Online for Public Use

As part of a website refresh, The British Museum has made over 1.9 million photos of its collections freely available to the public. Visitors to their online collections website can download images, and share & adapt them for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Museum director Hartwig Fischer said of the refresh:

The British Museum Collection Online makes millions of objects accessible to the citizens of the world, wherever they might be. Whether you are a student, an artist, a scholar or are a lover of history and culture, this is an unparalleled resource to explore the richness, diversity and complexity of human history contained in the British Museum's collection. It is also a platform where we can share the latest knowledge and research. We are delighted to be able to unveil this major revamp early, and hope that these important objects can provide inspiration, reflection or even just quiet moments of distraction during this difficult time.

Pictured above from the collection are the Townley discobolus, a drawing by Raphael, a Greek amphora, the Sloane astrolabe, and a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. And pictured below are a print by George Cruikshank, a portrait of William Shakespeare, marble metope from the Parthenon, the Rosetta Stone, and Albrecht Dürer's print of a rhinoceros.

However useful the new online collection is, it must be noted that the ownership of several of the items in the British Museum's collection -- including the Parthenon Marbles & Rosetta Stone -- is disputed.

For more large collections of images for public use, see also Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use, Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million High-Res Images Into the Public Domain, A Virtual Tour of the Van Gogh Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online, and Met Puts Huge Digital Image Trove Online. (via ianvisits)

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The Townley Discobolus at the British Museum, London, UK. Roman copy with incorrectly restored head.  One of the most iconic artworks of classical antiquity (x)

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Myron (Athenian Sculpture from mid 5th century BCE). The Townley Discobolus, The British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=8760&partId=1

In ancient Greece the common theme of the human body , while not as inhuman as the Egyptians, was the form of athletic perfection. The individuals depicted often possessed athletic bodies that bordered on perfection and flawless faces with little emotion. These sculptures were also among the first to experiment with displaying the act of being in mid-motion.

This marble sculpture is restored from lost bronze. It was first acquired in 1805. An athlete about to throw a discus is depicted in this statue. He is 1.7 meters high. This perfectly depicts the greek’s goal of perfection. 

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1) “Townley Discobolus, Roman Copy, 2nd Century AD.”

2) “Original Discobolus. It was Discovered in Greece in 1962, but the Head was Missing.”

3) “Original Discobolus. The Head of the Original Discobolus was later found in 1976.”

3) “Palombara Discobolus, Roman Reproduction, 1st Century AD.”

4) “The New Discobolus. A Complete Dice was Found in Greece in 2019.”

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