Borghese Gladiator

Agasias of Ephesus, c. 100 BCE

marble, height 199 cm

Paris, Louvre

18th century copy at Musée Lorrain, Nancy.

The marble Borghese Gladiator, ancient sculpture of a swordsman, about 2 metres tall, created c.100 BC, signed by Agasias of Ephesus, son of Dositheus was found at Nettuno in the Anzio region before 1611 and added to the Borghese collection. At the Villa Borghese it stood in a ground-floor room named for it. Sold to Napoleon by Camillo Borghese in 1807, it was taken to Paris when that collection was acquired for the Louvre Museum (Inventaire MR 224 (n° usuel Ma 527) ), where it now resides. Agasias was the name of two different Greek sculptors. ... -1... The Common Era (CE), is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 on the Gregorian calendar. ... A centimetre (American spelling centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of length that is equal to one hundredth of a metre, the current SI base unit of length. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... The Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is one of the largest, oldest, most important and famous art galleries and museums in the world. ... Location within France Nancy (pronounced in French) (German: Nanzig) is a city and commune which is the préfecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in the Lorraine région of northeastern France. ... Agasias was the name of two different Greek sculptors. ... Nettuno is a town and comune of Rome province in the Latium region of Italy, 60 kilometers south of Rome. ... Anzio (2003 pop. ... Villa Borghese: the 19th century Temple of Aesculapius built purely as a landscape feature, influenced by the lake at Stourhead, Wiltshire Villa Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums and attractions. ... Painting of Pope Paul V by Caravaggio Paul V, né Camillo Borghese (Rome, September 17, 1550 - January 28, 1621) was Pope from May 16, 1605 until his death. ... The main courtyard of the Louvre. ...

Misnamed a gladiator due to an erroneous restoration, it was among the most admired works of antiquity, providing sculptors a canon of proportions. A bronze cast was made for Charles I of England (now at Windsor) and another by Hubert Le Sueur was the centrepiece of Isaac de Caus' parterre at Wilton House. It was often copied in the eighteenth century. Copies can be found at Knole and Petworth House. This article is about the Roman professional fighter. ... Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, King of Ireland, and King of Scots from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. ... Windsor Castle: The Round Tower or keep dominating the castle, as seen from the River Thames. ... Isaac de Caus (1590 - 1648) was a French landscaper, and architect. ... Jones and de Causs South Front and the Palladian Bridge (1736/7), in a view of circa 1820 Wilton House is an English country house situated at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire. ... Knole House is a stately home, situated close to Sevenoaks in north-west Kent, surrounded by a large deer park, Knole Park. ... A distant view of Petworth House across the lake in Petworth Park by JMW Turner. ...

References

• Louvre catalogue
• Two copies at the Louvre
• Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, 1981. Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 (Yale University Press) Cat. no. 43, pp 221-24.
• Lestache copy