Male torso, fragment

It is a modern male torso: a contemporary sculpture, crafted with great attention to detail to create a sinuous body that enhances the surrounding space.

The Doryphoros is a famous masterpiece of Greek classicism, known through Roman copies. Its bust is a reproduction of a sculpture found in Pompeii.

Leonardo designed a monumental equestrian statue for Francesco Sforza in Milan, creating a large seven-metre-high clay model.

The masterpiece of Hellenistic Greece, the Nike of Samothrace, becomes a modern trophy symbolising victory.

The Ercole Farnese, now in the Archaeological Museum of Naples, depicts the hero victorious over the lion, one of his labours.