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Discovolos

With this sculpture, Konstantinos Dimitriadis won the gold medal in sculpture at the Olympic Games in 1924, in Paris. It is a study of the famous work “Discovolos” by the ancient sculptor Myron, which remains lost to this day. Konstantinos Demitriadis’s Discovolos (means discus thrower) was cast in three copies: the first was given by […]