At the Getty Museum will soon be delivered to the exhibition from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, two antique bronze sculpture

specialists from the Getty Museum continues to co-operation with their counterparts in Italy. Recently it was announced return home with a fragment of Roman wall fresco I century BC. e. And shortly before the American museum reported to reconcile with the receipt from Italy a few ancient sculptures for exhibitions . Now they added two more bronze statues from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. These male figures in almost full height, which were found in Pompey, will remain at the Getty Villa for two years.

One of them, Roman «Statue efeba (young men) with fixtures» I century BC. e. will be exhibited at the Villa at the end of April. And another sculpture, «Apollo Archer», presumably created in Greece before the year 146 BC. e., will be handed over to experts for a thorough study and conservation, and will appear before the American public about a year.

For many centuries, these works were buried under the ground after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 n. e. «Efeba» dig in 1925. It is remarkably well preserved - in part because it was wrapped in a protective coating on the repair time in the house, where he served as an adornment. The source of inspiration for the created «efeba» wizard, no doubt, have an earlier Greek statue. However, in keeping with the Roman tradition of turning the sculpture into functional decorative objects man holds in his hand decorated with an elegant chandelier.

«Apollo» less fortunate. It was discovered in 1817 broken into many fragments. His bow, arrows and quiver and are unable to find and recover. This is a very rare work, which is among about 30 large Greek bronze figures come down to us. It has for many years was kept in the storerooms, awaiting attention from the experts. Now a specialist in the conservation of the Getty Museum, Eric Risser (Erik Risser) deal for its part, and will undertake a thorough analysis of materials to find out how it was created and what has been repairing «lifetime».

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Sources: artinfo.com , latimesblogs.latimes.com , artinvestment.ru