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Six Greek sculptors (1910)

Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 236

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dumenus, for displaying themodelling of the chest. The head, like that of theDoryphorus, is turned towards the advanced right leg ;it is more bent than in the Doryphorus, thus resemblingthe Westmacott Athlete; but here the motive isevidently to be found in the physical exhaustion ordepression also… … HIiAD l>V A.MAZON, IX I.AXSIJOMXK IIOlSE ■fiija,-, p. 132 POLYCLITUS 133 in such a position as would strain the musclesaround the wound and so increase its pain; andit has even been suggested for this reason that thewound cannot have existed in the original, but wasintroduced into extant copies…

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