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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hitecturalsculptures about Myron, but we can see in them thereflection of his style, and trace his influence upon hiscontemporaries and successors. To pass from such architectural work to independentstatues, the head of the Massimi Discobolus has enabledus to recognise a whole series of heads as Myronic, or atleast as showing Myrons influence. This series has beentraced, with the help of a succession of links, all prob-ably of Attic workmanship, right through to the headof the Hermes of Praxiteles. The most familiar ofintermediate examples is a beautiful statue of an athletestanding and pouring oil from his right hand, raisedabove his head, into his left, which is held in front ofhis body. This athlete was attributed by Brunn to 1 I see no reason for the preference of Furtwangler and others forCritius as the source of the athletic influence in the metopes ofParthenon and Theseum. It seems to me that they have far less incommon with the Tyrannicides than with-the Discobolus* Plate XVII
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DIOMED WITH THE PALLADIUM ; STATUE IN MUNICH To face p. 77 MYRON 77 Myron himself. It is now generally regarded as thework of a later Attic artist who fell under his influence,perhaps Alcamenes.1 Here not only the head but thewhole motive and pose of the figure are intermediatebetween Myron and Praxiteles, and help one to realise—what we might easily miss if we had no intermediatelink—that there is an affinity between the two, thougha whole century of rapid development intervenes. Another set of statues, which has been with muchingenuity and a high degree of probability assigned byFurtwangler to Cresilas, also shows distinct traces of theinfluence of Myron. Among these is the well-knownportrait of Pericles, of which there is a good copy inthe British Museum, and the statue of Diomed with thePalladium, which has survived in several copies ; to theseFurtwangler would add the wounded Amazon of theCapitoline type, in which the pain of the wound is madethe motive of the whole figure, a

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