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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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e; his arm, thrown acrossthe lions mane, is a very bold attempt to realise aportion of a figure in high relief in a new position.There is of course some confusion and awkwardness inthese experiments; but, without them, it may bedoubted whether Myron, in the next generation, couldhave made his marvellously distorted Discobolus. It isunfortunate that there is some doubt possible as to theidentification of this Treasury, for it would be instruc-tive if we could know for certain whether the Cnidiansor the Siphnians are responsible for so characteristic amonument of early sculpture. It certainly has all therichness and exuberance of the Ionic art of Asia Minor,but combines with them a correctness of form and closestudy of the human figure and limbs such as we ratherassociate with the Dorian masters of athletic sculpture.It is easy enough to explain this combination at Cnidus,the Dorian city on the south-west corner of Asia Minor.At Siphnos one would rather expect a connection with Plate VI
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METOPE OF THE TREASURY OF THE ATHENIANS AT DELPHI ; HERACLESAND THE CERYNIAN STAG. AFTER FOUILLES DE DELPHES, IV., XLI To face p. 33 EARLY MASTERPIECES 33 the neighbouring islands, especially those of Paros andNaxos, whence both the finest marbles and the skill towork them spread throughout Greece in the sixthcentury b.c. As to another of the Delphian treasuries there is,happily, no such uncertainty. This is the one dedicatedby the Athenians from the spoils of Marathon, and inall probability erected immediately after the battle in490 b.c. Here the sculpture is restricted to the squaremetopes that alternate with the triglyphs of the Doricentablature all round the building; and the simpler andseverer surroundings correspond in some degree to thestyle of the sculptures. The subjects are the exploits ofHeracles and Theseus, most of them restricted to asimple group of two figures in combat or in conversa-tion. The treatment of these subjects reminds us ofthe designs upon the Attic red-figu

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