The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 59
eancients the Canon, or Rule, becausethe right proportions of the humanbody seemed to have been moreexactly observed in it than in anyother work. The head, a bronzereplica of which was found at Hercu-lanum, seems somewhat expression-less to us ; but it is one of the oldestexamples of that classic… … FIG. 55.—COPY OF polyclitus DORYPHORUS. (Museum Naples.)(Photo., Alinari, Florence.) that they supported the weight of thebody on a single foot. Tliis againmarks an emancipation, the credit ofwhich belongs to the Greek art of thefifth century. In Egypt, in Assyria,in primitive Greek art, all…
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