drawing
- Museum number
- 2010,5006.1687
- Description
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Torso of a discobolus once restored as Endymion and afterwards as a Niobid, with the restorations marked in red ink. Now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (inv. no. 212).
Pen and ink.
- Production date
- 1768 - 1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 357 millimetres
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Width: 203 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See: S. Howard, 'Some eighteenth-century restorations of Myron's discobolos', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25/3-4 (1962) p.333, fig. 46e; reprinted in 'Antiquity Restored' (1990).
G. A. Mansuelli, 'Galleria Degli Uffizi, Le Sculture I, (Rome 1958) cat. no. 5, p. 32-3.
I. Jenkins, 'Myron's Discobolus', forthcoming.
Seymour Howard, 'The Lansdowne Herakles' (1978), p.14, fig.12
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5006.1687
