Apoxiomene statue
Description:
In Tsarskoye Selo, on the pedestals of the Granite Terrace balustrade in the 1850s, galvanoplastic copies of ancient sculptures were installed among them and the statue of Apoxiomena. This is a work of the foundry workshop of the Imperial Academy of Arts, made of copper by the method of electroplastic surgery, invented in 1838 by the Russian physicist B. Jacobi.