Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 220
nd heads as copies or variants of the original. 7See Helbig, Fuehrer, I, 1083. Its soft expression and forms led Furtwaengler to derive it fromthe Praxitelean circle, from the period when Praxiteles was influenced by Polykleitos, and to be-lieve that it represented a divinitv, perhaps Triptolemos:… … Statue known as the Westmacott Athlete. British Museum,London. PRIMARY ATTRIBUTES OF VICTOR STATUES. 157 This should be associated with another head in Dresden, both beingclosely related to that of the Westmacott Athlete.1 The best copy of thehead is in the Hermitage, in which the treatment of the…
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