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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been mainly athletes, with the exception ofthe Amazon, which he is said to have made for Ephesusin competition with Phidias, Cresilas, and Phradmon. Of his statue called The Canon we possess in ourmuseums several copies ; the best of them was found atPompeii, and is now at Naples. It represents a youngathlete advancing at a walking pace, his right footplanted firmly in front, and supporting the wholeweight of the body, while the left trails behind, onlythe toes resting on the ground. In his left hand hecarries a spear sloped over his left shoulder, and forthis reason was often called the Doryphorus or spear-bearer. His head is turned towards the side on whichthe foot is advanced, thus emphasising the monotonywhich the critics mention. A later sculptor would almostcertainly have aimed at variety by turning the head theother way. The extant copies of the Doi-yphorus areall of Roman date, and mostly in marble. We cannot,therefore, look to them for those refinements of bronze Plate XXXIV
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DORYPHORUS, AFTER POLYCL1TU: AT NAPLES To face p. 122 POLYCLITUS 123 technique for which Polyclitus was especially famous.On the other hand, they agree with one another intheir style and proportions, and so may serve as trust-worthy evidence as to their original; they even preservein the marble many characteristics borrowed frombronze, and one of them, the head from Herculaneumnow in Naples, is itself in bronze. All, however, aremore or less mechanical copies, and cannot give us anadequate notion of the beauty of the work of Poly-clitus. The proportions of the figure are somewhatheavy, especially when compared with Attic work; themuscular structure is very clearly mapped out, mostlyin broad surfaces with clear lines of demarcation betweenthem. The head also is very square and massive inbuild, with little expression beyond that of passivephysical existence; the hair clings close to the scalp,and is rendered in a series of little wavy curls. It isevident that the sculptors aim is neithe

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