The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 58
istinguished him-self most by this emancipation wasthe Athenian, Myron, famous for hisstatues of athletes. One of these, theDiscobolus, is known to us from a finecopy preserved at Rome; it represents.a young man, who is bending with avigorous gesture to hurl the discus(Fig. S3). His body is thrown… … FIO. 53.—COPY OF MYRON S DISCOBOLUS. (Palazzo Lancelotti, Rome.) life and expression, the head is stillcold; it seems quite unmoved by the
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