Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-4
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
8-5004 (previous museum number (recataloged from)) and CC 009 (Classics Department Number)
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Workshop of Giuseppi Lelli, Florence, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Guiseppi Lelli, Florence
Culture or time period:
Classical Rome
Maker or artist:
Giuseppe Lelli
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Loans:
S2005-2006 #3: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley)/Stephen G. Miller (September 23, 2005–September 23, 2006) and S2009-2010 #12 [DEFUNCT]: Academy of Art University (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).

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