Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 144
ralisticallyshown in the back and at the elbows. Inlater Boeotian examples from Mount Ptoion,which are directly developed from the Or-chomenos type,3 the form is lighter and theproportions more graceful. In one example (Fig. 13, left) even theveins are shown. In the example mentioned above as… … Fig. 12.— Statue of so-called Apollo of Melos.National Museum, Ath-ens. lSee Holleaux, B. C. 11., X, 1886, p. 271; XI, p.pp. 302 f.See Holleaux, in B. C. II., XI, 1887. p. 178. and cf. Vischer, Kleine Schriften, II.2B. B., no. 76.4From the inscription on its thigh. 104 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT…
Sculpture, Greek · Olympics · Sports
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