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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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HEAD OF BRONZE HERMES AT NAPLES To face p. 244 Plate LXXVtII
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BRONZE STATUE, FROM WRECK OFF CERIGOTTO, IN ATHENS To face p. 245 HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE 245 part of it, except that all must have been carried offfrom Greece before the time of the wreck, which isdated by the contents of the ship about the beginningof the first century b.c. Some writers have tried toidentify this bronze as a work of the fourth or even thefifth century, an attempt that cannot bear the test ofa careful analysis of the style of the statue. It repre-sents an athlete standing with his right arm extended,and holding some round object that has now dis-appeared, his pose recalling to some extent that of theApoxyomenos; the exact meaning of his action appearsto be an insoluble problem, but the position is evidentlychosen to show off the figure. The head has a good dealof resemblance both to that of the Hermes of Praxitelesand to that of the Lansdowne Heracles, which, as wehave seen, is probably to be connected with Scopas.The modelling of the body, on the other hand, is heavya

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