Naked Athlete
unknown (Italian School)
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-564
- Author
- unknown (Italian School)
- Name
- Naked Athlete
- Date of creation
- 15th c.
- Country
- Italy
- Culture
- Renaissance
- Technique
- casting
- Material
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 23 x 3 x 13 cm (height x width x depth)
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture
Information about author
Object description
The actualisation of the ancient artistic ideal and the idea of kalokagathos (the unity of inner and outer beauty) is a characteristic feature of the Italian Renaissance, based on anthropocentrism, the idea of man as a divinely inspired and free being who, while maintaining a connection with the transcendent, transforms the world around him. One example is an image created by an unknown 15th-century Italian master based on classical antique models. Reproducing an athlete in ancient Greece – a participant in the Olympic Games, a citizen respected and elected by the polis, the unknown master focused on modelling the naked body, understood as a perfect, harmonious, human-cultivated aesthetic object. The peculiarity of the sculpture is the representation of an athlete in action, interpreted as the manifestation of an ideal essence.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
