Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 145
r, in the pose of thestatue, especially in the way in which one leg is modelledthrough the drapery, while its heavy folds completelyenvelop and conceal the other, we may see a well-known Phidian characteristic. On the skirt are horizontalbands, which may well represent rich lines of relief… … HEAD OF ATHENA, IN JACOBSEN COLLECTION, COPENHAGEN To face i\ 87 PHIDIAS 87 open on the Acropolis at Athens; this was said tohave been provided from a tithe of the spoils of Mara-thon, and therefore was most probably, like the otherMarathonian trophies, set up during Cimon^s predomi-nance in…
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