Gaddi Torso – Roman marble sculpture

This Gaddi torso turns hard at the waist: the chest swings to one side, the stomach muscles pull tight and the back arches against a force the fragment no longer shows. Head and limbs are left out on purpose, and the rough, tooled breaks set off the smooth modelling of ribs and flank.

Each example is carved anew by hand in white marble, faintly veined in grey, so no two are quite alike. A rust-brown iron rod lifts it above a white marble plinth with concave ends, the front inlaid with a panel of dark green serpentine.

The model is the Gaddi Torso in the Uffizi, a Greek marble of the first century BC bought by Grand Duke Peter Leopold from the Gaddi collection in Florence in 1778. The museum reads it as a centaur with its hands bound behind its back, and it was deliberately left unrestored; Amico Aspertini painted it into his Adoration of the Shepherds of 1515.

At 76 cm high on a footprint of 35 by 20 cm, the torso needs little room. On a column pedestal of about 90 cm at a stair landing, the chest comes up to head height and light from the side runs across the ribs. From behind, the arched back shows a figure carved in the round.

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