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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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aracteristic of the traditional reputation of Lysippus.The somewhat sketchy character of the work seems toimply that we have to do with a freely carved replicarather than with a laboured copy of the bronze original,but even after allowing for this, we may still seedifferences of proportion and muscular developmentbetween the Agias and the Apoxyomenos which areessential, not accidental. The contrast has been wellsummarised in the following description by Mr. K. T.Frost:1 In the Apoxyomenos the whole conceptionof the human figure, the whole athletic ideal, isdifferent. The Apoxyomenos has the tendencies ofAgias toward length of limb and lightness of framecarried a step further. The Agias is alert, but it isthe alertness of stability; the Apoxyomenos, lightlypoised, seems able to spring off in either direction : thewaist tapers more, the limbs are yet longer, and aremade to seem even longer in proportion to the body1 J. H. S., xxiii. p. 130 note (quoted by Prof. P. Gardner). Plate LXVIII
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APOXYOMENOS, IN VATICAN To face p. 220 LYSIPPUS 221 than they really are. Compare, for example, the lowerlegs of the two —(allowing, of course, for the fact thatthe thick and rather clumsy ankles of the Agias are arestoration)— in the Apoxyomenos the muscles of thecalf are short and swelling, while the tendons whichtaper from calf to ankle contribute to the grace whichpermeates the entire design. In the Agias, and in theelder Sisyphus, the calf muscles are longer and thelower portions of the legs fuller. The hollow back ofthe Apoxyomenos, the way in which the muscles sweepinward at the waist from above, and outwards below,while the steel-like subsidiary tendons and sinewsprevent the slimness from suggesting any lack ofstrength, find no counterpart in the Agias, whose backis treated rather sketchily, and whose waist, thoughfine, depends more for its strength on the generalsolidity of the frame than on specially developedmuscles. It is difficult to believe that the two statuesrepres

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