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Like all hunters, they hunted for a priceless object – and as the statue could not say no, they used the Discobolus for their perverse ideologies. Without the Classical tradition, the Nazi visual ideology would have been rather different. In his article, Alastair Sooke quotes Professor Rolf Michael Schneider of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Screenshot from Olympia, showing the Discobolus (Olympia-Film). Olympia was directed by the acclaimed German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), who, in 1935, had made the innovative Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Īdolf Hitler and Leni Riefenstahl in 1934 In an article on BBC Culture, British art critic Alastair Sooke writes that the Nazis drew much aesthetic inspiration from the art of ancient Greece and the Discobolus in particular featured prominently in the opening sequence of the of the two-party 1938 film Olympia, which documented the Berlin Olympics (also known as the “Nazi Olympics”) that had taken place two years earlier. Hitler was so infatuated with the statue that in 1938, he bought a copy of it (known as the Discobolus Lancellotti or the Discobolus Palombara) for five million lire from Galeazzo Ciano, the Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943. (Click here to see a photo of Hitler with the statue in Munich). In the twentieth century, however, the legacy of the Discobolus was significantly darkened due to its connection with the Third Reich. Poster for Olympia: Festival of Beauty (1938), Wikipedia Named after the Lancellotti family that once owned the statue. The Discobolus Lancellotti and a fragmentary statue of the Lancellotti type, National Roman Museum, Rome, Italy. According to Jenkins, the Discobolus is “arguably the most famous statue in the world.” In addition to being a depiction of athletic perfection, it has been a paradigm of homoeroticism and a piece of political identification. Ian Jenkins ( ‘The Many Sides of Myron’s Discobolus’, June 2012, the British Museum), a curator at the British Museum and expert in ancient Greek sculpture, the statue has acquired many meanings. He has taken a moment of action so transitory that students of athletics still debate if it is feasible…to a modern eye, it may seem that Myron’s desire for perfection has made him suppress too rigorously the sense of strain in the individual muscles. Myron has created the enduring pattern of athletic energy. Regarding the action of the discus thrower, Clark wrote:
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In his 1956 book The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, the British art historian and aesthete Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) observed that Myron captures two particular qualities – rhythmos (harmony and balance) and symmetria (bodily proportion). His head is turned towards his sporting equipment (but in some restorations he is “wrongly” looking ahead). Although he is involved in a demanding situation, his face and body are unusually relaxed and composed.
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The Discobolus is a physically gorgeous, young male athlete frozen in the pose of launching his disc. Named after the English connoisseur Charles Townley. Roman copy with incorrectly restored head. Fowler) The Townley Discobolus at the British Museum, London, UK. ~ From The Works of Lucian of Samosata(2011, translated by H. Have you never noticed as you came in that beautiful one in the court, by Demetrius the portrait-sculptor?’ ‘Is that the one with the quoit,–leaning forward for the throw, with his face turned back towards the hand that holds the quoit, and one knee bent, ready to rise as he lets it go?’ ‘Ah, that is a fine piece of work, too,–a Myron … In a dialogue between characters Tychiades and Philocles, we find the lines: Roman bronze copy of Myron’s Discobolus, 2nd century AD, Glyptothek, Munich, Germany AD 180) mentioned Myron in a work called Philopseudes.
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The Roman rhetorician and satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. The sculpture was well-known in the ancient world. Originally sculpted in bronze by an Athenian man called Myron (born in the fortress-city of Eleutherae in the 5th century BC), the statue has gained fame largely through its many bronze and marble copies made by the Romans. The Discobolus or “discus thrower” is one of the most iconic artworks of classical antiquity.
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