Roman Gladiator | |
Artist: | Gustave Georges (Joris) Theodore Geefs |
Medium: | Bronze sculpture |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Roman Gladiator is an outdoor 1881 bronze sculpture by Gustave Georges (Joris) Theodore Geefs (20 November 1850 – 4 December 1933), the son of Joseph Geefs who is a brother of Guillaume Geefs, installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California.
The statue depicts a nude man holding a sword, and wearing a cloak and helmet. It measures approximately 100 x 36.25 x 33 inches, and rests on a base that measures approximately 40 x 44 x 44 inches.[1] The bronze plaque on the front of the base reads:
The sculpture was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1992, and is administered by the San Francisco Arts Commission.[1]