The original is now lost, but the sculpture is well-known and studied from several Roman copies. The copies include the Lancellotti Discobolus and the Townley Discobolus (seen in the painting above).

If the public demands that the Discobolus should be relegated to an attic because it is unclothed, very well, let it go there. Let me have the key to the attic when I wish it. If the statue is ...