Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 256
Statue of the Diskobolos, from Castel Porziano, after Myron.Museo delle Terme, Rome. PYTHAGORAS AND MYRON. 185 villa, is in the British Museum (Fig. 35).1 Here the head, althoughantique, belongs to another copy, and has been set upon the torsowrongly, in such a way that the throat has two Adams… … Fig. 34.— Statue of the Diskobolos, after Myron.Vatican Museum, Rome. formerly belonged to the French sculptor Etienne Mounot (1658-1733), who wrongly restored it as a falling warrior. It agrees inaccuracy with the Lancelotti copy, though it is dry and lifeless, andis a better guide to the original…
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