Greek sculpture : a collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles, with introduction and interpretation (1901)
Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 89
ly that of the springwhich, when compressed, shoots out from the centre.The greater the contortion of the body, the moreeach muscle and sinew is strung towards one centre,the greater will be the impetus when this compres-sion is suddenly set free. l Our statue shows the disk-thrower at the… … John Andrew 4 Sou, So. THE DISCOBOLUS (THE DISK-THROWER)Lancelotti Palace, Rome THE DISCOBOLUS (THE DISK-THROWER) 71 that holds the disk, and all but bending on oneknee, he seems as if he would straighten himself upat the throw. The modern critic whom we have already quotedshows that when we view…
Sculpture, Greek
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