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Feb 28, 2012

Statue of an Athlete

1–100

Italy, Roman, 1st Century

Marble

Overall: 173.9 cm (68 7/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1924.1046

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For many years, this sculpture stood in the rotunda of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Description

This idealized athlete recalls Greek sculptural types invented and popularized during the 400s BC. Large-scale athletes and other sculptures like this were originally created by famous artists as sanctuary dedications. Centuries later, they were widely copied and adapted by Roman sculptors, whose clients sought their own versions of earlier masterpieces. Working in marble rather than bronze, these sculptors added certain elements for stability, such as the struts and the large tree trunk beside the right leg here. Sculptures like this one are profoundly complex, made by and for Romans but descended from Greek ancestors.

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Citations

R. Howard. "An Athlete Attributed to Myron." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 9 (1924): 170-173, 180. Illus. cover. www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 61 archive.org

Amelung, W. "Der Meister des Apollon auf dem Omphalos und seince Schule," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts XLI, Heft 3/4 (1926), pp. 247-287. Ill Taf 6-7.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 76 archive.org

Blümel, Carl. Der diskosträger Polyklets. Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co, 1930. Ill, p. 10, Abb. 5.

Bieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America Vol. 31 No. 3 (July 1943). Pp. 119-120, fig. 6.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 20 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 25 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 25 archive.org

Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p .11 archive.org

Exhibition history

Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).

Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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