Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 353
t beassumed that he disregards the details;indeed he cannot complete his expression ofthe human body in action without attend-ing to the details. The statue modelled bythe English painter, Lord Leighton, andexhibited in 1877, represents a vigorousman strangling a python who is trying tocrush him in… … Plate LXII.—STATUE, athlete axu serpent; AFTERWARDS LORD LEIGHTON (183O-1896). HY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, Recent Art Compared with Greek Standard locomotion. This is expressed finally in thepose of the figure (see Plate LXII) ; but thevery matter alluded to, the grip of the toesupon the ground and…
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