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Archive photograph of the previous version: bronze statue of Julius Caesar standing, in cuirass and cloak.

Previous version1932

Julius Caesar standing in a cuirass and military cloak, presenting a condom in its blue wrapper in his left hand.

Current version2026

Julius Caesar, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome

Photo: Falk2, via Wikimedia Commons, resizedLicence CC BY-SA 4.0Image source

Acc. no. GLI.2026.005 105

Julius Caesar

Roman general and statesman, proclaimed Father of his Country.

At the GLiTCH Museum, Department of Contemporary Antiquities.

Marble, latex, foil wrapper.

Next version Marble. The wrapper will remain sealed.

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Catalogue entry

Record GLI.2026.005
Work 5 of 13

Materials depicted
Marble, latex, foil wrapper.
Provenance
Vending machine outside an all-night chemist’s, Rome. Out of order since 86 BC.
Condition report
Good. Wrapper intact. Never used.
Related work
Cuirassed statue of Julius Caesar, Trajanic period, Palazzo Senatorio, Rome.

Commentary

Julius Caesar, general and later dictator, was assassinated on 15 March 44 BC as a session of the Senate opened in the Curia of Pompey. Suetonius counts twenty-three wounds; according to the physician Antistius, only one was fatal.

Among the conspirators was Marcus Brutus, son of Servilia, the woman Caesar loved above all others: he gave her a pearl worth six million sesterces. Plutarch reports that Caesar had some reason to believe Brutus was his son.

‘You too, child?’ According to Suetonius, Caesar merely groaned; some, he adds, credit him with these words, in Greek. Shakespeare later gave him Latin. The line remains uncertain. So does the paternity.

Previous version

Julius Caesar, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome. Bronze copy (1932) of a Trajanic-era marble on the Capitoline. The left hand is empty.

Photo: Falk2, via Wikimedia Commons, resizedLicence CC BY-SA 4.0Image source

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Digital composition by Aël, updated with the help of artificial intelligence. Glitch: original.