Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 332
osed lips greatdetermination. Furtwaengler, Bulle, Flasch, and others have datedit in the fourth century B. C, and are fain to see in it the work ofan artist of the immediate circle of Lysippos or Lysistratos;1 but itsexaggerated realism seems rather to point to a later period, not earlierthan the… … Fig. 62.—Bronze Foot of a Victor Statue, fromOlympia. Museum of Olympia. position of this foot shows—as an experiment with a living model hasdisclosed—great movement, which makes it obvious that it comes froma statue in lively motion, probably of aboxerorpancratiast. It belongsto the statue of a…
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