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Antique Bronze Sculpture of The Dying Gaul by B Boschetti Rome, 19th C
C. 1830, Italy
£3,650
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London, United Kingdom
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This is a truly magnificent antique Italian Grand Tour figural golden patinated bronze sculpture depicting a wounded gladiator known as "The Dying Gaul", and signed B Boschetti, Roma, circa 1830 in date. This striking classical sculpture is after the original antique Roman marble sculpture found in the Capitoline Museum in the early 17th Century, which is itself a copy of an ancient Hellenistic bronze sculpture commissioned by Attalus of Pergamon in 230-220 BC to celebrate his victory over t...