Of all of the wonderful sculpture that we saw, I think that this bronze rendition of the Boxer at Rest is among my favorites. Now in the National Museum of Rome, it was excavated in Rome in 1885. The detailing in the bronze is very fine. He bears the cuts and marks of his most recent fight and is still wearing his caestus, leather-wraps that served as boxing gloves in ancient times. Even without the eyes, the boxer’s face is incredibly expressive. He gazes up from his hunched position, clearly still reeling from his last fight, and perhaps gearing himself up for the next one. While walking around the sculpture, I was very curious as to how it was constructed. He was made using the lost-wax process, wherein multiple different segments are cast using wax. The pieces are then connected together, in this case with such skill that the joins are essentially invisible.