Author: Anon
Period: III century A.C.
The original masterpiece is now preserved at the Ufizzi Gallery, Florence.
The Wrestlers are a very famous group of marble sculptures from the Roman era, already a replica of a previous Greek bronze group lost.
The two men are involved in a real Olympic discipline called "Pancratio", similar to the martial arts of our day. They are in obvious excitement and one of the two seems to have the upper hand on the other crushing it down and forcing him to surrender after having blocked his arm.
The sculptor who created this piece invented with it a real sculptural format called "simplegmata", that is, more physics grouped and intertwined with each other in a fight or even in an act of love.
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