Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 243
rks. It is here that the discovery ofan undoubted original from his hand, even if it be onlyone of his minor works, has proved invaluable to us.In future all study of the works of Praxiteles mustbegin with the Hermes at Olympia. What we know of Praxiteles from external sources isbut little. None of… … HERMES, BY PRAXITELES, AT OLYMPIA To face p. 143 PRAXITELES 143 There is, indeed, no chronological evidence to place theone master before the other. But Praxiteles seems tocome earlier in the development of sculpture, and hiswork was rather the perfection of what preceded thanthe origin of what was…
Sculptors · Sculpture, Greek
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