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Gemma Ward modeling Helmut Lang • January 2004 • Vogue Italia • Steven Meisel
How Attica’s Resting Boxer might have found himself well prepared for barea athla, the heavy events, on Helmut Lang’s Spring 2004 runway... • All runway images courtesy of Livingly
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Four versions of the Roman caestus, a leather glove used in ancient boxing
Diana Dondoe modeling Helmut Lang • 2004 • Vogue Italia • Michael Thompson
Detailed views of the Roman caestus • Pages 113 & 114 of De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex • 1573 • Girolamo Mercuriale
Models wearing Helmut Lang • Helmut Lang Spring / Summer 2004 Collection
Ivory Wrist Guard • Helmut Lang Spring / Summer 2004 Collection
Two views of a hand wearing a caestus and holding weights • Circa 1644 • Attributed to Vincenzo Leonardi Rome • Image courtesy of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo • Royal Collection Trust
Boxing gloves or caestus, showing ways that Lottatori fighters bound their hands for combat • 1, 2 & 3 from the Maffei Museum, and 4 & 5 from an ancient urn in St. Stefano church, Piscinola • Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga
Model wearing an ivory wrist guard • Helmut Lang Spring / Summer 2004 Collection
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Bronze hand of a boxer wrapped in a caestus from a larger lost bronze statue • 1st Century A.D. • Verona Roman Theatre Museum, Verona
Caestus - Kämpfer (Fighter wearing a caestus) • 1870 • Album des Classischen Alterthums • Hermann Reinhard
Depiction of ancient Greek boxing gloves • Image courtesy of Archiv Gerstenberg via Getty Images
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Illustrations depicting boxing in antiquity • Pages 8 & 9 of The Hand-book to Boxing • 1840 • Owen Swift
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Pugiles cum Cestabus • Engraved plate from Archaeologia Graeca • 1804 • John Potter • Image courtesy of my private collection
Forearm from a bronze statue of a boxer found at Herculaneum • 1st Century C.E. • Roman
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Boxer at Rest • 330 - 50 B.C. • Greek, Hellenistic Period • Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Black-Figured Panathenaic Amphora • 336 B.C. • Greek • The British Museum, London
Model wearing a black wrist guard • Helmut Lang Spring / Summer 2004 Collection
