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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    attribution of the statue to his hand is, perhaps, beyond the legitimate limits of artistic criticism, there can be no doubt that it is full of his spirit, and made by one of his contemporaries and associates, if not by himself. Another statue that has survived to our time in several copies, if we do not possess the original, is that of a hero whose tragic and untimely end gives a peculiar interest to his personality; this is the Meleager (see PL I.), which is well known from the Vatican statue ; much liner and more accurate copies of this head can be seen on a statue (to which it does not belong) in the Medici gardens, and in the head recently acquired from the Carlisle collection at Castle Howard by the British Museum. A line though much-damaged copy of the statue exists at Boston. The remains of the short hunting-spear and the boar s head in the Vatican copy show the identification of the ideal hunter to be correct. A comparison between the Vatican and Medici heads, as facilitated by the reproductions on PI. I. from the Berlin “ Antike Denkmaler,” I. Pl. XL., is most instructive, for it allows us to compare an ordinary Roman copy of a fourth-century head with what, if not, as some suggest, the original itself, at least preserves much of the chararacter and quality of the original. A glance at this plate tells more than pages of description. The individuality, the life, and the mobility of feature so
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