Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London, Duckworth and co. · leaf 376
e conceptionof the human figure, the whole athletic ideal, isdifferent. The Apoxyomenos has the tendencies ofAgias toward length of limb and lightness of framecarried a step further. The Agias is alert, but it isthe alertness of stability; the Apoxyomenos, lightlypoised, seems able to spring off in… … AIOXVOJIEXOS, IX VATICAN To far, p, L-_0 LYSIPPUS 221 than they really are. Compare, for example, the lowerlegs of the two —(allowing, of course, for the fact thatthe thick and rather clumsy ankles of the Agias are arestoration)— in the Apoxyomenos the muscles of thecalf are short and swelling,…
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