The Dying Gaul

by Cora Wandel

Title

The Dying Gaul

Artist

Cora Wandel

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Photograph

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This marble sculpture was unearthed in Rome during the construction of a villa around 1621, and quickly became famous throughout the world as "The Dying Gaul". Its depiction is of a wounded warrior who is supporting himself with one arm, but his death is imminent. This was a popular theme in sculptures in the second and third centuries A.D. It is not known when "The Dying Gaul" was made, but because it was unearthed in an excavation around 1621, the sculpture is believed to have been at least two hundred years old at the time of its discovery, and created no later than the year 1400. In late 2013, "The Dying Gaul" left Europe for the first time, and was on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., through March 16, 2014.

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