Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 387
rit of Lysippos—we can seehow fundamentally different is thewhole spiritual conception of thetwo, and how differently an ath-lete (even if highly idealized) and ahero are treated by the same sculp-tor. If we once recognize a victorin the head from Olympia, thenthe swollen ears, the fierce,… … Fig. 71.— Head of the Statue ofHerakles (PI. 30). LansdowneHouse, London. IDENTIFICATION OF THE OLYMPIA HEAD. Having established, then, the Lysippan character of the head andthe probability that it comes from the statue of a boxer or pancratiast,we shall next discuss the evidence for identifying it…
Sculpture, Greek · Olympics · Sports
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