Visiting the new Getty Villa is a bittersweet ... figure of an audacious young athlete crowning himself in glory -- and the Lansdowne Herakles, a beefy Roman statue that was the late oil tycoon ...

Paul Getty Museum ... a bronze Greek statue of a young man, his weight shifted onto his right leg, his head crowned with an olive wreath—the prize bestowed on victorious athletes in ancient ...

The exception is the Aphrodite statue, which will remain at Getty Villa, the Getty’s recently ... a 4th-century BC statue of an athlete, whose fate had been a sticking point in the negotiations.

Since 1978, the statue has been on display at the Getty Villa in Malibu ... Possibly a tribute to a victory by a Greek athlete at Olympia, the life-size piece is considered a rarity.

Visitors look at a statue of the Victorious Youth, which was recovered from a first-century BC shipwreck in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Italy, at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu ...

And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure that reputedly inspired Getty to built the museum in the design of a Roman villa. Upstairs, room 217 holds an ...

Italy has the right to confiscate a life-size bronze statue dating back to the second or third centuries B.C. from the J. Paul Getty Villa Museum ... in Italy as the “Athlete of Fano,” but ...