Jüngling vom Magdalensberg

Youth of Magdalensberg

In 1502 a farmer discovered on a hillside of Magdalensberg (Carinthia, Austria), a bronze statue. The statue derived from the first century before the Common Era. The inscription in the right thigh proves that it was devoted to a Roman sanctuary.

The statue was taken to Salzburg and copied before 1551. In 1806 the copy was moved from Salzburg to Vienna where it is now on display in the "[Kunsthistorisches Museum](/KunsthistorischesMuseumWien)". The original was given to emperor Ferdinand I. and probably ended up in Spain in the gardens of the palace of Aranjuez. It supposedly was hidden in a well in 1808 to secure it from Napoleon I., got destroyed on rescue and presumanbly ended up as material for the production of cannons.

This object was scanned in 2016 by Oliver Laric. The texture was created by niaphasia based on photographs owned by © KHM-Museumsverband ([CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/))

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