![]() ![]() KAS1549) in The Royal Cast Collection at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark. The sculpture depicts a youthful male athlete throwing a discus. This is a 3D scan of a plaster cast of the sculpture ‘ Discobolus (The Discus Thrower)’ made by sculptor Myron of Eleutherae dated circa 450 BCE. The Discobolus of Myron ('discus thrower', Greek:, Diskobólos) is an Ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period at around 460450 BC. Henrik Holm, senior research curator at SMK Copies of the figure enabled Adolf Hitler’s filmmaker Leni Riefensthal to have naked athletes assume the figure’s position in her film about the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, and Hitler acquired the best preserved antique version from Mussolini in 1938. Ancient Greek discus throwers were admired and. The Discobolus has been the object of great admiration for its ability to depict a body in movement, yet also remain perfectly balanced and in keeping with a stringent formal language. It measures an athletes precision, coordination and physical strength. The strange horns in the figure’s forehead are the remnants of a device used to support a victory wreath. For example, the head was placed in several different ways before settling on a final version this is evident in the two versions housed at the Royal Cast Collection. The sculpture depicting a discus thrower is described in surviving accounts from Antiquity, but it took a long time before archaeologists were able to reconstruct the original on the basis of fragments from a range of copies from Antiquity. ![]()
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