Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 169
vations of thetemple site in 1901, and have been incorporated into the existing figuresin the Glyptothek. His reconstruction, though not definitive, is morein accord with artistic probability than any that preceded.1 As weshould expect from the athletic tradition of the Aeginetan school ofsculpture… … Fig. 20.—Figure, from the East Pediment of the Temple onAegina. Glyptothek, Munich. that anatomical knowledge was never expressed again in Greek art sosimply and naturally. The figures, without any excess of flesh, areslightly under life-size, short and stocky—shoulders square, but thewaists…
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