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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ly derived from the work of Polyclitus, butclosely assimilated in modelling to the Hermes ofPraxiteles—so closely indeed, that its genuineness hasbeen suspected. Whether an ancient or a modern copy,it shows us how a type created by one artist can bemodified to conform to the style of a later master.Another, known as the Dladumenus Farnese, is in theBritish Museum; this is not derived from the work ofPolyclitus; its position, style, and proportions are allof them Attic, and it has by some been identified as acopy of a Boy Binding on a Fillet, made by Phidias.The subject is a common one at all periods of Greeksculpture; and the Farnese statue is mentioned here,not because it has any relation to Polyclitus, butbecause some confusion exists upon the matter. We have a record of several portraits of victoriousathletes by Polyclitus, including the early works which,as we have seen, date the beginning of his artistic careerwell before the middle of the fifth century. The bases Plate XXXVIII
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WESTMACOTT ATHLETE, IN BRITISHMUSEUM To face p. 129 POLYCLITUS 129 of several of these have been found at Olympia and themarks for fixing the feet of the statue show that inthem also, as in the Doryplwrus and Diadumenus,Polyclitus adopted the position with one foot advancedand planted firmly on the ground, the other merelytouching it with the toes. Some have gone further,and noting that the left foot was advanced in theCyniscus, propose to identify copies of that statue ina figure of a Boy crowning himself\ that has survivedin several examples, notably in the Westmacott Athleteof the British Museum. That this statue is of Polyclitancharacter is obvious; the close clinging hair in smallwavy locks also resembles that of the Doryphorus.But the slender forms, the exaggeration of the attitude,especially in the droop of the head and the sinking ofthe right hip, do not seem probable in a work by themaster himself, much less in the earliest of his recordedworks. It seems more probable that we

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