Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 97
ng two heads, is Polykleitan and Attic. 64 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. Such beautiful works of art as these last show the influence whichthe great athletic festivals, and especially the Olympian, exerted on thedevelopment of Greek sculpture. In the gymnastic training… … Fig. 3. Bronze Head of an Olympic Victor, fromBeneventum. Louvre, Paris. pose. In fact, we may say with Furtwaengler that without athleticsGreek art would be inconceivable.1 To quote from another work ofthe same scholar: The gymnastically trained bodies of these slim boys and youths and vig-orous…
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