Apoxyomen from the Apoxyomen Museum, Mali Losinj in Croatia
Apoxyomen - a figure of an athlete traditional for ancient Greek sculpture , a scraper ( strigil ) cleansing himself of sand after competitions. The bronze original of Lysippus , according to the description of Pliny the Elder , was installed by Marcus Agrippa in Roman terms , but later Tiberius ordered him to be taken to his bedroom. The originals of Lysippos and Polyclletus are lost, but copies are preserved:
- The most complete version of Pentelicon marble was discovered in 1849 during excavations in Trastevere and transferred to the Patica Clement Vatican Museum .
- Fragments of a bronze statue in the spirit of Policletus were discovered in 1896 during excavations in Ephesus , are exhibited at the Vienna Museum of the History of Art . There is a possibility that this work came out of the workshop of Polyclet himself.
- In 1999, a bronze Apoxyomen of the 2nd or 1st century BC was found in the sea off the coast of Losinj . e. This beautifully preserved statue entered the collection of the Museum of the Apoxyomen in the city of Mali Losinj .
- The bronze heads of the unabserved apoxiomes can be seen in the collections of the Hermitage , the Kimbell Art Museum and several other museums.