That University of Gottingen shows a copy of a historic statue in a new exhibition. The focus is on four statues discovered in Rome at the end of the 19th century and in the sea off southern Italy in 1972, as announced by the university. Titled “up close. Greek Colored Bronze Sculpture: Art and Technology”, the exhibition opened on Thursday in the plaster collection and is now open every Sunday.
The statues in the center of the exhibition show a naked warrior, an exhausted boxer, and the so-called thermal ruler – a naked man standing on a stick. The copy was made for a research project at the Frankfurt Liebieghaus and borrowed from there.
In the past, statues were dedicated to gods, heroes, athletes and colorfully painted – including those made of bronze, the university announced. “The figures stood in holy places or in bazaars. “They had to appear lithe, tanned, up close,” said the curator of the Göttingen collection, Daniel Graepler. Bronze is especially suitable for this, but ancient bronze statues are rarely preserved. The exhibition is also intended to stimulate discussion about their reconstruction and interpretation, said the curator.
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