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Boxer at Rest is a Greek bronze statue, the greatest surviving masterpiece from antiquity [Hellenistic] for the pathos that it still evokes across time capturing the spectator in the transcending immediacy that is our tragic human condition confronting fear, survival & mortality. https://t.co/ugpmr1QkKD
This was such a vast conflagration that the mixture of molten metal it produced was supposed to be the origin of a prized, and extremely expensive, material known as Corinthian bronze.
Mary Beard • SPQR
Theo Erasmus
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