Borghese Gladiator Vase Elevate your decor with a

Elevate your decor with a touch of imperial grandeur

"His dearest ambition is to equal Michelangelo

It is considered one of the Louvre's greatest treasures

mostly being cast in bronze

Size 60 cm tall (2ft)

Borghese Gladiator Vase Elevate your decor with aThe Borghese Gladiator Statuette. After the antique, Vincenzo Gemito, Italy 1880. The original antique marble was found in the early 1600`s, at Nettuna, south of Rome, among the ruins of a seaside palace belonging to Emperor Nero on the site of the ancient Antium. From the attitude of the figure it is clear that the statue represents not a gladiator, but a warrior contending with a mounted combatant. In the days when antique sculptures gained