Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 273
e possible: see O. S., p.184; here he dates the sculptor (?) 476-444 B. C. ■>Cf. infra., Ch. VIII, p. 365, n. 1. 198 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. Perhaps our best representation of runners is to be seen in the twomarble statues discovered near Velletri and now in the Palazzo… … Fig. 38.—Statue of a Runner. Pa- Fig. 39.—Statue of a Runner. Pa-lazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. lazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. at first interpreted as runners, but later were regarded as forming agroup of wrestlers, who were standing opposite one another and holdingtheir hands out for an opening.…
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