Professor. Franciosi, an archeologist of just 41 years, is the audacity of the study The passion for culture and we say it, the pride of Herculaneum. The professor has a completely inverted 'opinion that held since 1863!
This is what explains in his book, then, you know that by 212 BC, the date the taking of Syracuse, and even more by the destruction of Corinth in Greece and the acquisition of the Roman province, there is a large influx of Greek works in Rome. The rich Roman ladies decorate their homes with statues made to arrive from Greece, who could not afford it, asked for copies. Here then, that in the second century. BC arising in Athens marble workshops of scribes. Copies of the statues were not always true, sometimes magnified, sometimes shrinking the original, or even add to the copies of the variants exist in the original.
All in all, however, copies are important to reconstruct the style of the original work (especially when you consider that the original bronze statues were melted down to mint coins and to fashion weapons during the Crusades). In the eighteenth century AD
Winkelmann began applying the philological method in archeology, to study, ie, in addition to original works, including descriptions, written sources. This method led
Karl Friederichs, in 1863, to recognize in a photo copy of the original statue in bronze Doriforo Policleto, from Herculaneum, in reality it turned out, have come from Pompeii. This statue was all a Doriforo Policleto up studies of our prof. Franciosi: "Ever since I was in college, the more I looked at this statue, the more I became convinced that something was wrong." In fact, everyone thinks that the statue holds in her left hand a spear, so it is left-handed, his spear at odds with the figure contrasts the rationality of the work, Furthermore, it seems absurd that Policleto had made a statue with a spear protruding at head height.
If you look closely the general outline of the statue is very similar to that of the Bronze Statues (for example, the chasm between the tension and relaxation of the arms and legs). The Riace, however, had a shield. The professor looked at the Spearman's left hand (or at least widely held that the statue): the index and little fingers are advanced, this means that the hand was keeping something arch, also on the left arm of the copy of Naples have been found signs of oxidation, which would correspond to the cuff of the shield. If you look good right arm, it turns out that this is not so relaxed. A closer look also the position of the hand, we note that it is closed so as to form a square, where it can only get into a sword! So this statue has a sword and a shield and can not coincide with a Spearman, which just for the name is a statue carrying the spear. The professor showed Franciosi, destroying a belief that lasted for centuries, through other studies that the false Doriforo of Naples is actually a Theseus, probably Policleto.
But then, what is the real Doriforo? Pliny in Naturalis Historia writes that the Spearman is "manly boy," according to the professor and coincides with the 'Roman Efebo found in the British Museum of London. Prof. Franciosi then destroyed two beliefs: the Spearman of Naples is actually a Theseus Policleto el'Eufebo London is the Spearman Policleto!
Author: Rachel T.
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