Six Greek sculptors / by Ernest A. Gardner.

  • Ernest Arthur Gardner
Date:
1910
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Six Greek sculptors / by Ernest A. Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rome.1 This may well be a copy of a work of Myron’s later years. It has the same closely curling hair as the Discobolus, the same marked eyelids, the same rather full lips, and a similar shape of face. There is, how¬ ever, far more attempt at expression, though it is not in this respect as advanced as the Diomed. Even if we do not follow Furtwangler in the problematic series of identifications which he adds, we may admit the truth of his inference that the Riccardi head should make us modify the opinion, recorded by ancient writers, that Myron, though excellent in rendering physical life, was deficient in the expression of mental or emotional quali¬ ties. Doubtless it was for the first that he was most famous among the later Greeks; but we should be limiting unduly the scope of his originality if we altogether denied him the other. 1 This head has long been recognised as Myronic. See Friedrichs- Wolters, *‘Bausteine,” No. 458. A similar, but narrower, head is in the Ince-Blundell collection ; another at Ny Karlsberg.
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