Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 331
ve been sunk in the sea.1 Long ago, I referred the life-size bronze portrait-like head of a boxer orpancratiast found at Olympia, now in the Athens Museum (Figs. 61Aand B),2 to one of two statues of the pancratiast Kapros mentionedby Pausanias.3 The remnant of a wild-olive crown in the hair… … it A B Fig. 61.—Bronze Head of Boxer (?), from Olympia. National Museum, Athens. Greek sculpture was not always ideal we have seen from the descrip-tion of the Seated Boxer of the Museo delle Terme (PI. 16 and Fig. 27).This peculiarly life-like head is another example of the same realism; itwould…
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