| DATE | 460 - 430 BC |
| AUTHOR | Unknown |
| MEDIA | Bronze |
| SIZE | 200 cm tall |
| LOCATION | Italy - Reggio Calabria - Museo
Nazionale della Magna Grecia |
| NOTES | The Riace bronze heroes face us in splendid and self-assured nudity. Tensed, and yet at the same time entirely relaxed, they stand there, poised lightly on their feet, doing nothing at all, but ready in a moment to spring into any kind of action they desire.
They look at us with an almost unimaginably self-confident calm: they know that we admire them, and they know that we have good reason to do so. Standing before us naked causes them no embarrassment, for they have done this many times before and are proud of their bodies.
Yet they are not at all pompous, arrogant, overweening: they simply know that what they do they do supremely well, better than anyone else. It does not even occur to them that we could want to do anything other than admire them... |
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