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Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)

Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 198

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and statuettehave much in common (e. g., the position ofthe breast and shoulders, the treatment of thehair,etc.), which shows that both may be copiesof one original, the conception of the two issomewhat different. The statue from Athensrepresents a boy standing busily engaged atthe altar; the… … Fig. 26.—Marble Sta-tue of an Athlete(P).National Museum,Athens. ^abbadias, 248; Stais, op. cil., p. 86; Arndt-Bruckmann, Einzelaufnahmen, 627 and 628(head alone); noticed in A. A., 1889, p. 147, and A. M., XIII, 1888, p. 231 (Wolters); ibid.,XXXI, 1906, pp. 352 f. (von Salis); Jb., VIII, 1893, pp.…

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