One other complete sculpture, also extant in the form of a high-quality marble copy, can be associated with near certainty with this larger composition: the "Gaul Committing Suicide With His Wife" in the National Museum of Rome's Palazzo Altemps.
The "Gaul Committing Suicide With His Wife"
Often, art has served as basis for others to emulate in achieving a legacy larger than life. There are those among us, leaders, heads of state, illegitimate and unpopular, vainglorious, self-aggrandizing, bereft of any legacy of their own to speak of, might consider following in the footsteps of those exemplified in art, sculpture, as their only means to achieving immortality.
Art, history, the ancient world, a trifecta of sunkenciv indulgences.
We saw it earlier this month. Anyone who can get to the National Gallery should just go.
One of the most beautiful sculptures in western art. I saw it thousand years ago at the Capitoline.
“What a [community activist] is now about to perish!”
It's strange that what most of the world saw as a symbol of slavery, the Gauls saw as the badge of a free man.