Cast Gallery catalogue number: C039

Head of an athlete.
For other versions of the same original see C036, C037 and C038.

• Plaster cast: Height: 47cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue.
• The head:
  • is a version of the head of the original bronze Diadoumenos made by Polykleitos about 425 BC.
  • was purchased for Dresden from the Chigi collection in Rome in 1728.
  • is now in Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Albertinum 71.