The Discobolus of Myron ("discus thrower" Greek Δισκοβόλος του Μύρωνα) is a famous Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze original, completed during the zenith of the classical period between 460-450 BC. A discus thrower is depicted about to release his throw. The moment captured in the statue is an example of rhythmos, harmony and balance. Myron is often credited as being the first sculpture to master this style. Naturally, as always in Greek athletics, the Discobolus is completely naked. His pose is said to be unnatural to a human, and today considered a rather inefficient way to throw the discus. Also there is very little emotion shown in the discus thrower's face. The other trademark of Myron depicted in this sculpture is how well the body is proportioned, its symmetria. The Discobolus Palombara stands 1.55m. Myron (Greek Μύρων) was a sculptor from the middle 5th century BCE. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. ... Statue of discus thrower in Botanic Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark Alternate meaning: Discus fish The discus throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event. ... Statue of discus thrower in Botanic Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark For alternate meanings, see Discus. ... It has been suggested that Naked hiking be merged into this article or section. ...

Myron's Discobolus was long known from descriptions:

"When you came in the hall," he said, "didn't you notice a totally gorgeous statue up there, by Demetrios the portraitist?" "Surely you don't mean the discus-thrower," said I, "the one bent over into the throwing-position, with his head turned back to the hand that holds the discus, and the opposite knee slightly flexed, like one who will spring up again after the throw?"

"Not that one," he said, "that's one of Myron's works, that Diskobolos you speak of..." (Lucian of Samosata, Philopseudes c. 18)^[1]

On its discovery in 1781, at a Roman property of the Massimo family, the Villa Palombara on the Esquiline Hill, it was initially restored by Giuseppe Angelini., and the Massimi installed it initially in their Palazzo Massimo delle Colonne then at Palazzo Lancelotti. The Italian archeologist Carlo Fea identified the sculpture as a copy from the original of Myron. It was instantly famous, though the Massimo jealously guarded access to it (Haskell and Penny 1981:200). Lucian of Samosata (c. ... The Esquiline Hill is one of the famous seven hills of Rome. ... Carlo Fea (2 February 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist. ...

Discobolus, London, British Museum, with incorrectly restored head

After the discovery of the Discobolus Palombara a second notable Discobolus was excavated, at Hadrian's Villa in 1790, and was purchased by the English antiquary and art dealer established in Rome, Thomas Jenkins, at public auction in 1792. The English connoisseur Charles Towneley paid him £400 for the statue, which arrived at the semi-public gallery Townley commissioned in Park Street, London, in 1794. It was bought for the British Museum, with the rest of Townley's marbles, in July 1805 (illustration, above right).^[2] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (700x1000, 521 KB) Description: Discobolus, London, British Museum Source: self-made Date: created 20. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (700x1000, 521 KB) Description: Discobolus, London, British Museum Source: self-made Date: created 20. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... The villas recreation of Canopus, a resort near Alexandria, as seen from the temple of Serapis Theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy in refined mosaic, from the villa (Capitoline Museum, Rome) The Villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli, Italy, even in ruined condition is one of the most... Thomas Jenkins was the headmaster of the King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon in England starting in 1575. ... Much of the following text is taken from the public domain Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, as such it may contain errors and inaccuracies Charles Towneley (1737-1805), English archaeologist and collector of marbles, was born at Towneley, the family seat, near Burnley in Lancashire, on the ist of October 1737. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ...

Other Roman copies in marble have been recovered, and torsoes that were already known in the seventeenth century, but that had been wrongly restored and completed, have been identified as further repetitions after Myron's model. For one such example, in the early eighteenth century, Pierre-Étienne Monnot restored a torso now recognized as an example of Myron's Discobolus as a Wounded Gladiator who supports himself on his arm as he sinks to the ground; the completed sculpture was donated before 1734 by Pope Clement XII to the Capitoline Museums, where it remains.^[3] Venus de Milo, front. ... // Pierre-Étienne Monnot (Orchamps-Vennes, Doubs, Franche-Comté, 9 August 1657 — Rome 24 August 1733) was a French sculptor working mostly in Rome in a late-Baroque idiom. ... Clement XII, born as Lorenzo Corsini (Florence, April 7, 1652 – Rome, February 6, 1740), Pope from 1730 to 1740, had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs. ...

Roman bronze reduction of Myron's Discobolos, 2nd century CE (Glyptothek, Munich)

In 1937 Adolf Hitler negotiated to buy it, and eventually succeeded in 1938, when Galeazzo Ciano, Minister of Foreign Affairs, sold it to him for five million lire, over the protests of Giuseppe Bottai, Minister of Education, and the scholarly community. It was shipped by rail to Munich and displayed in the Glyptothek; it was returned in 1948. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2030x3274, 1696 KB) de: Statue eine Diskuswerfers, griechisch 2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2030x3274, 1696 KB) de: Statue eine Diskuswerfers, griechisch 2. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Galeazzo Ciano. ... Giuseppe Bottai (b. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Prior to the statue's discovery the term Discobolus had been applied in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to a standing figure holding a discus, a Discophoros, which Visconti identified as the Discobolus of Naukydes of Argos, mentioned by Pliny (Haskell and Penny 1981:200). The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus, meaning Discus-Bearer is one of the figures in according to the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. ... Ennio Quirino Visconti by Theophile Auguste Vauchelet, Oil on canvas, 1802, Musee Carnavalet, Musee de la Ville de Paris. ... Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elders Natural History is an encyclopedia written by Pliny the Elder. ...

Other examples of the Discobolus of Myron, besides the Discobolus Palombara in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, include: Museum in Rome, split between various branches across the city // Crypta Balbi Museum of Medieval Rome, medieval remains, history of the site, and remains of the Theatre of Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) in Campus Martius Palazzo Altemps Palazzo Massimo Baths of Diocletian (main) Epigraphic museum Octagonal Aula of the Baths...

• two copies found at Tivoli, 1791: one was acquired by the Vatican Museum, the other, from Hadrian's Villa, bought by Charles Towneley, is now in the British Museum, London. The head was wrongly restored, as Richard Payne Knight pointed out, but Townley was convinced his was the original and better copy.
• a copy discovered in 1906 in the ruins of a Roman villa at Tor Paterna in the royal estate of Castel Porziana, now also in the Museo Nazionale Romano.

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References

• Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, 1981. Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press) Cat. no.32.

External Links

• Skulpturhalle, Basel (German)