Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 234
of headof athlete of the fourth century B. C). 13Cal. Class. Coll., pp. 228 f.; fig. 141 on p. 231. Miss Richter points out its affinity to the Hermesand assigns it to the immediate influence of Praxiteles. This fragment of a statue appearsto have been trimmed into its present shape in modern… … Head of an Athlete, School of Praxiteles. Metropolitan Museum, New York. SECONDARY ATTRIBUTES OF VICTOR STATUES. 169 When we consider heads of gods and heroes we find the swollen earson a variety of types. We see them on the so-called Borghese War-rior of the Louvre (Fig. 43),1 formerly called a…
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