The Legacy of the Riace Bronzes
How two creators are keeping the practice of techne alive today
In 1972 off the coast of the small southern Italian town of Riace, a snorkeler chanced upon a shocking discovery. At a depth of about 7 meters, Stefano Mariottini, a chemist on vacation from his native Rome, glimpsed an arm poking up from the sand on the sea floor.
At first he thought it was a dead human body. Fearing the worst, he approached the object …
