Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 376
hole conceptionof the human figure, the whole athletic ideal, isdifferent. The Apoxyomenos has the tendencies ofAgias toward length of limb and lightness of framecarried a step further. The Agias is alert, but it isthe alertness of stability; the Apoxyomenos^ lightlypoised, seems able to spring off… … a APOXVOMENOS IN VATICAN To face p. 220 LYSIPPUS 221 than they really are. Compare, for example, the lowerlegs of the two—(allowing, of course, for the fact thatthe thick and rather clumsy ankles of the Agias are arestoration)— in the Apoxyomenos the muscles of thecalf are short and swelling, while…
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