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Six Greek sculptors (1910)

Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 93

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Calamis, the third, is another claimant to the authorship of the Charioteer, mainly in virtue of his position as the leading Attic artist of the time. In a book devoted to the great sculptors of Greece, it might seem desiiable to give a chapter to Pythagoras and to Calamis. But such chapters would… … EARLY MASTERPIECES 53 actually be brought before us by their works; and forthat reason the Charioteer, as an original work of thetime of these sculptors, is of more value to us thanmany descriptions of lost statues, or than many con-jectural identifications of later copies. In it we can seethe…

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