An athlete scrapes sweat, oil and dust from his outstretched arm with a curved strigil. This marble, found in Trastevere in 1849, is a Roman copy of a lost bronze by Lysippos, court sculptor to Alexander the Great. Its small head, about one-eighth of the body's height, and long limbs show the slimmer canon of proportion Lysippos introduced.
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The outstretched arm reaches towards the viewer, inviting you to walk around him. Pliny says Tiberius moved the bronze original into his bedroom until theatre crowds demanded it back.
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