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The Uffizi’s “Wounded warrior” is a Greek original

It was previously believed that the statue was a copy

The Art Newspaper
30 September 1992
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While examining the Uffizi’s collection of statues in the course of a restoration programme of the classical examples, Luigi Beschi realised that the statue of the wounded warrior was an unrecognised Greek original from the classical period. He detected an inscription of Kleomenes on the figure’s clothing, obscured by a dense network of incisions. The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676, but was always throught to have been a copy of a Greek original. The statue will from now on be displayed in the Sala delle Niobe; the reattribution is documented in the publication Statua del guerriero ferito. Storia, prospettive esegetiche, restauri, published by Centro Di.

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