Gaddi Torso
The marble Gaddi Torso displayed in the Classical Sculpture Room of the Uffizi, Florence, is a Hellenistic sculpture of the 2nd century BCE. Description Its dynamic tension and unusually refined modelling place it among sculptures of the :Pergamene sculpture, Pergamene school. Formerly considered to be the torso of a satyr when it was in the Gaddi collection, Florence, the sculpture is now thought to represent a centaur straining against his bonds, a theme that was represented several times in Hellenistic art, as it was an emblem of civilized control of Man's baser nature. The torso was very likely discovered in Rome, according to Giovanni Di Pasquale and Fabrizio Paolucci. It was certainly already in the collections of the Florentine Gaddi family in the early 16th century, when Florentine artists and sculptors knew it. The sculpture appears on a pedestal, among other vestiges of shattered Classical pagan culture, in the ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' that was painted in 1515 by th ...
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Gaddi Torso Statue Fragment In Uffizi
Gaddi may refer to: *Gaddi people, a tribe living in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. *Muslim Gaddi, a tribe found in North India and Pakistan *Gaddi language, a language of India *Gaddi (name), a list of people with the name *Gaddi (sheep), a breed of sheep from India *Gaddi (biblical figure), one of the scouts sent by Moses into the Land of Canaan See also

*Gadi (other) *Gaddis (surname) *Gaddi Torso, a Hellenistic sculpture of the 2nd century BCE {{disambiguation ...
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