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The Getty Victorious Youth^[1] is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300-100 BCE,^[2] in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California. On its first rediscovery Bernard Ashmole and other scholars attributed it to Lysippos, a grand name in the history of Greek art; modern concerns are less with such traditional attributions as with the original social context: where the sculpture was made, for what context and who he might be. View of a building at the Getty Center, from the Central Garden. ... Kouros of the Archaic period, Thebes Archaeological Museum The sculpture of Ancient Greece is by far the most important surviving form of Ancient Greek art, although only a small fragment of Greek sculptural output has survived. ... View of a building at the Getty Center, from the Central Garden. ... The Malibu pier near the famous Surfrider Beach Dawn in the Santa Monica Mountains The Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in central Malibu The Paradise Cove pier in Malibu Malibu is a city located in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Roman copy of Eros Stringing the Bow from the Capitoline Museum. ...

The sculpture was found in the summer of 1964 in the sea^[3] off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy, snagged in the nets of a fishing trawler. After some furtive offering on the antiquities gray market^[4] and vigorous competition with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1977. Country Italy Region Marche Province Pesaro e Urbino (PU) Mayor Stefano Aguzzi (since June 2004) Elevation 12 m Area 121 kmÂ² Population - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 61,675 - Density 512/kmÂ² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Fanesi Dialing code 0721 Postal code 61032 Frazioni Bellocchi, Camminate... A satellite image of the Adriatic Sea. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ...

The sculpture may have been part of the crowd of sculptures of victorious athletes at Panhellenic Greek sanctuaries like Delphi and Olympia.^[5] His right hand reaches to touch the winner's olive wreath on his head. The powerful head has led viewers to see it as a portrait; the head was cast separately from the lithe body. The athlete's eyes were once inlaid, probably with bone, and his nipples are in contrasting copper. The amphitheatre, seen from above. ... Olympia (Greek: ÎŸÎ»Ï…Î¼Ï€Î¯Î± OlympÃa or ÎŸÎ»ÏÎ¼Ï€Î¹Î± OlÃ½mpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ...

The precise location of the shipwreck, which preserved this object from being melted down like all but a tiny fraction of Greek bronzes, has not been established; it seems most likely that a Roman ship carrying looted objects was on its way to Italy when it foundered. The statue has been roughly broken off its former base, breaking away at the ankles, a sign that it was not removed with the care of an entrepreneur with a Roman connoisseur in mind as a purchaser. This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

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^ It is referred to in Italian sources as L'Atleta di Fano. Italian authorities were actively pressing for the sculpture's return as recently as November 2006.
^ The consensus is that the sculpture could date anywhere from the late fourth through the second century BCE. Carbon-14 dating does not further narrow the range.
^ Other well-known underwater bronze finds have been retrieved, generally from shipwreck sites, the Antikythera mechanism, the Antikythera Ephebe and the portrait head of a Stoic discovered by sponge-divers at Antikythera in 1900, the Mahdia shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, 1907; the Marathon Boy off the coast of Marathon, 1925; the standing Poseidon of Cape Artemision found off Cape Artemision in northern Euboea, 1926; the horse and Rider found off Cape Artemision, 1928 and 1937; the Riace Warriors, found in 1972; the Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo, near Brindisi, 1992; and the Apoxyomenos' recovered from the sea off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999.
^ Though the Greek sculpture is unlikely ever to have touched Italian soil before its modern recovery, Italian authorities have pressed for its return, ass part of Italy's patrimony.
^ Analysis of fibres from the core reveal that they are flax; Pausanias noted in the second century CE that the only flax being grown in Greece was to be found around Olympia.

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