Borghese Gladiator
(17th century)
Medium
bronze
Measurements
45.9 × 34.8 × 21.8 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Italy
Accession Number
3979-D3
Department
International Sculpture
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Exhibition
Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds
Essay
No form can be spatial: the origins of Lucio Fontana’s Spatial concept
Essay
Making sense of nonsense: pseudo-script on an Italian Renaissance maiolica dish
Essay
Gli Scarpa
Essay
Emerging from Darkness at Hamilton Art Gallery
Essay
Beneath Italian skies
Essay
Gaetano Pesce: Lighting up design
Essay
Anticipatory magic
Essay
Violets are blue
Essay
The meandering line of April Glaser-Hinder
Essay
A technical examination of William Blake’s Virgil wood engravings
Essay
Artona chair
Essay
Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion
Essay
Centaur carrying off a female faun
Essay
Trajan and the widow, a panel from a cassone
Essay
Virgin and Child with the young Saint John in a garden of roses
Essay
Gaetano II Sforza Cesarini, Duke of Segni
Essay
Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and angels
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Pharmacy jar from Santa Maria Nuova
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Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Lithographs of the sculpture: the plant becomes a fan 1
Jim DINE
Mercury
ITALY
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Spirit of the sharp hill point
SENOI people
Hercules and Cerberus
ITALY; Francesco FANELLI (after)
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Lithographs of the sculpture: the plant becomes a fan 2
Jim DINE
Lithographs of the sculpture: the plant becomes a fan 4
Jim DINE
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Ideas for sculpture: Reclining figures
Henry MOORE
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Circe
Bertram MACKENNAL
Head of a star
Hans ARP
Flower muzzle
Hans ARP
Line sculpture (Cuboid) #33
Jong OH
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Mother and child: Ovals
Henry MOORE
Universal Exposition, Paris. Paintings and sculpture gallery, stereoview
UNKNOWN
The victory of faith
St George HARE
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Thorn spirit
SENOI people
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT