Keywords: Roman - Statue of a Boy - Walters 2371 - Left.jpg This is a masterful example of early Roman bronze statuary The proportions of the young boy in motion are not entirely in harmony indicating that it was made by the process of piece-mold casting In this technique artists joined different body parts together in varying combinations according to the desires of the patron Similar bronze figures carrying torches have been excavated from Roman villas around the Mediterranean and may have functioned as decorative lamp-holders or garden statuary century 1 bronze cm 115 5 54 6 22 8 accession number 23 71 22860 Marchese Aniello Palmieri Naples Dikran Kelekian Paris and New York Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1924 Fire of Hephaistos Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; Tampa Museum of Art Tampa 1996 place of origin south Italy Walters Art Museum license Roman bronze Statue of a Boy Walters 2371 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |