Uffizi Wrestlers

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The Wrestlers, also known as The Two Wrestlers or The Pancrastinae, is a Roman marble sculpture created after a lost Greek original dating back to the third century BC. Two young men are engaged in pankration, a form of wrestling similar to modern mixed martial arts, where they are struggling in a position now recognized as a "cross-body ride" in freestyle wrestling. The upper wrestler has his left leg entwined with his opponent's left leg, with his body positioned across the opponent's body, lifting the opponent's right arm high into the air. In a well-known series of modern wrestling moves, the upper wrestler would attempt to lift his opponent's arm above their head to force a pinning move called the "Guillotine." Their muscular structure is extremely defined and exaggerated due to their intense physical effort. Neither of the two heads are original to the sculpture, although that of the lower figure is older and as advanced stylistically as the sons in the "Niobe Group". The heads were added after the sculpture was rediscovered. This is a cast of the version at the Louvre (ORIG3153). The scan was produced in collaboration between The Statens Museum for Kunst and Scan the World for the SMK-Open project, where every model produced from this initiative is available under an open source license. Scanner - Artec Eva