Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 98
hest ideal of physical 1 Bedeutung der Gymnastik in d. gr. Kunst, 1905; cf. also Gardner, Sculpt., p. 23, and Hbk., p. 215 CANONS OF PROPORTION. 65 beauty and strength. They are the most splendid human beings that theart of any period has created.1 CANONS OF PROPORTION.In attempting to identify a… … Bronze Head of an Olympic Victor, from Her-culaneum. Museum of Naples. Greek art may, like Greek philosophy and poetry, be summarizedunder the names of three qualities which constantly occur in classicalliterature—av/jLixiTpla, evpvdfxla or pvdjibs, and avaXoyla.2 Symmetrymay be defined as that…
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