Masculine features that stretch out excessively upwards, keeping the proportions of the #body in spite of the head that remains small. This statuette, whose height does not reach 60 cm, is a #bronze votive work, belonging to Etruscan art and dating back to the third century BC.

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‣ The name “Shadow of the evening” so poetic, could only be an #invention of a writer such as Gabriele D’Annunzio. The original popular recognition instead assimilated it to the craftsmanship coming from the Volterra area, which has always been the cradle of “bronze experts”

‣ Very ancient sculpture but with a #design so contemporary as to inspire the great 20th-century artist Alberto Giacometti and that still makes it a true icon of modernity. An almost supernatural figure that recalls the long shadows at #sunset

⇒ Date: III sec. BC

⇒ Material: Bronze

⇒ Dimensions: 57,5 cm height

⇒ Site: Museo etrusco Guarnacci, Volterra