Ancient Classical Greek Bronze Riace Warrior Statue

Who were the Riace Warriors?

The Riace Warriors, are two full-size Greek bronze statues of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–450 BCE that was found in the sea near Riace, Italy in 1972. Riace Warriors Statue A depicts a young warrior hero or god. They look proud. And the sculpture expresses its own beauty and powerful body. Riace Warriors Statue B, on the other hand, depicts an older and more mature warrior hero. The pose of this sculpture is relaxed and the gaze is gentle.

Who Found the Riace Warriors statue?

The Bronzes of Riace were discovered by Mr Stefano Mariottini, an amateur scuba diver from Rome, during a holiday on the Calabrian coast.
They turned out to be one of Italy’s most important archeological finds of the last 100 years.
The two sculptures look human and divine at the same time, between reality and myth.

These renowned personages are wrapped in mystery, we don’t know anything about their identity, paternity and origins not to speak of their destination.
These works are beautifully made, and succeed in awakening deep feelings among the populace. These are, after all, the main reasons of the enthusiasm the bronzes of Riace have aroused.
Some speak, however, of “magnetic force”, “eroticism”, ” halo of fear”.
Some other bring Freud into the discussion. And much more will be said on this topic.
They have been exhibited in Florence, then in Rome, lastly and definitively in the Museum of Reggio Calabria.
The presence of the statues on the sea depths, seems the effect of a boat’s falling during the Roman age: the Romans, after having conquered Greece, stole the great artistic patrimony, and moving it through a low coastal navigation, along the safer open sea roots of the Ionian coast.

What does the Riace Warrior represent?

The Riace warriors both display the abilities of the bronze medium to represent the dynamism versus the severe placid style. Together with this and their closeness to the contropposto stance, the Riace Warriors make for a smooth transition to the High Classical Greek period.

It is thought the two warriors originally formed part of a votive group in a large sanctuary and it has been speculated that they represent Tydeus and Amphiaraus respectively, two warriors from the Seven Against Thebes monumental group in the polis of Argos, as Pausanias noted. Other scholars think they may have originally been part of a monument to the Battle of Marathon. Still others have expressed their opinion the pair may be Erechtheus, son of Athena, and Eumolpos, son of Poseidon. The Greek temples at Olympia, Argos, and Delphi were plundered after the Roman occupation and some scholars have posited that these warriors were being transported to Rome as booty when a storm overtook their ship, but no evidence of a wreck has been found.

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