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Pankratiasts (The Wrestlers). Artist unknown, late 3rd century B.C.E. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.  The original statue was made in bronze and was lost in antiquity. The only known copy is this Roman marble statue in the Uffizi Gallery. Found in Rome near the gate of St. John Lateran in April, 1583, the statue was restored with the wrong heads. The statue was acquired by Cardinal Ferdinando de Medici in 1677 and placed in the Tribune room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The Uffizi Gallery was the world's first art museum founded in 1581 by the wealthy De Medici family of Florence.