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isstatue. Nor does the Farnese figure answer in any way to what we know GREEK BRONZES 45 of Praxiteles, who, on doubtful authority, is stated to have made aDiadumenos, or of Lysippos of whom it is known that he had taken thecanon of Polycleitos as the basis of a new system of proportions. The… … Fig. 17.—Marble Head of Amazon. British Museum. that in a competition among sculptors for a statue of an Amazon tobe placed in the temple of Diana at Ephesus, it was arranged that thedecision should be left to the competing artists on the principle that eachwas to select the statue next best to his…
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