Ombra Della Sera (Italian for
Shadow of the Evening or
Evening Shadow) is an
Etruscan 57 cm high bronze
sculpture from the 3rd century BC. It was discovered around 1730 and held at the Guarnacci Museum of Etruscan Artifacts in Volterra,
Italy. It depicts an unusually slender nude man. It also has its own
website
.
Tropes:
- Male Frontal Nudity: It is a nude male that shows its penis on display.
- Noodle People: The figure is extremely thin and lanky in impossible ways.
- No Title: Whatever name it might have had was lost to time. The statue was nicknamed Shadow of the Evening because its absurdly elongated body evokes the elongated shadows created by the setting sun. This nickname was supposedly coined by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), though there is no documentation of how the name got attached to the statue. First documented use of this name occurs in a 1954 guidebook.
- The X of Y: Its name means "Shadow of the Evening" in Italian.
