Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 193
uired by Wellesley College in 1905 from aRoman dealer. 4Copies of the head-type are listed by Furtw., Mp., p. 282; Mw., pp. 494-5. 140 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT REST. from Herculaneum (Fig. 25)1 so strongly resembles in its forms thetype under discussion—which Furtwaengler has called the… … Fig. 25/—Bronze Head of an Athlete, from Her-culaneum. Museum of Naples. show that it comes from a closely allied work. This head showsan intense melancholy, which has been explained by Furtwaengleras due to the lack of skill on the part of the copyist, who fashionedit slightly askew. Amelung very…
Sculpture, Greek · Olympics · Sports
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