Identifier: sixgreeksculptor00gard (find matches)
Title: Six Greek sculptors
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939
Subjects: Sculptors Sculpture, Greek
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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add the way in which the hairwells out from beneath the band and overshadowsthe brow. We may see very much the same effect inthe beautiful head of the Farnese Hera which, thoughprobably Polyclitan in character, shows the samecombination of severity and delicacy which is con-spicuous in the Bologna head. Of another bronze statue by Phidias on the AthenianAcropolis, Apollo of the Locusts, we know nothing butthe name; his Aphrodite Urania was probably inspiredby the same distinction between heavenly and earthlylove which we find in Plato and later poets, and whichwas a curious inversion of mythological fact. He madeanother statue of this same goddess for Elis, probably dur-ing his employment at Olympia. Of his Amazon, madefor Ephesus, we shall have to speak under Polyclitus.Among other extant statues that have been associatedwith Phidias, none is better worth mention here thanthe marble statue of Apollo found in the Tiber, andnow exhibited in the Museo delle Terme at Rome. This Plate XXX
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APOLLO, IN THE MUSEO DELLE TERMEAT ROME To face p. 114 Plate XXXI

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