Achilles Statuette Farnese Weight: 10 kg

Weight: 10 kg

The base is carved with scenes of the trials he will have to face during his life

13 x 13 inches

wearing Centurion ceremonial armour

appears as a tabletop accessory in more than a dozen of Pompeo Batoni's portraits of English visitors to Rome

Achilles Statuette Farnese Weight: 10 kgAchilles, after the antique marble by Filippo Albacini 1825. A well detailed sculpture depicting the Trojan warriors final blow after the epic battle with the Trojan prince Paris. Achilles knew from a prophecy that he must choose between a long, uneventful life without glory, or a short life with eternal fame. This ancient Greek sculpture of Achilles, depicts the moment he gets struck by an arrow, that has pierced his heel, his only vulnerable point.