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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nd it makes us realise that Phidias hadthe power of inspiring his pupils and assistants toproduce work hardly to be distinguished from his own—a fact attested in the case of certain well-knownstatues, and so, perhaps, the less surprising in architec-tural sculpture such as this. In any case, the charac-teristics are similar to those we noticed in the drapedfigures of the pediments; we see the same harmony,the same subordination of every minute touch to thegeneral effect, and also the same breadth combinedwith delicacy in the modelling. In the less successfulportions of the frieze, either breadth or delicacy tendsto be in some degree lost, as we might expect would bethe case in the work of subordinates who were unableto attain the high standard set them by the master.An example of variety may be seen if we compare thehorses heads just mentioned with the horses, for in-stance, of the two riders from the west frieze (PI. XXV.).Here, too, the execution is full of life and spirit; but Mw
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