This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... juvenem. But he confesses a monotony in Polykleitos, granting that his statues were paene ad unum exemplum. 2 This has, however, been claimed as a work of Pheidias by Furtwangler, Masterpieces, 244. 8 Masterpieces, 243. Furtwangler goes so far as to see in this change the influence of Attic sculptors in the latter ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... juvenem. But he confesses a monotony in Polykleitos, granting that his statues were paene ad unum exemplum. 2 This has, however, been claimed as a work of Pheidias by Furtwangler, Masterpieces, 244. 8 Masterpieces, 243. Furtwangler goes so far as to see in this change the influence of Attic sculptors in the latter part of Polykleitos' life. Pliny, 34. 35. distribution of prizes after the battle of Salamis. Some declare that our Amazons all belong to a single type. Others, noticing a Praxitelean motive in one of the types leaning on a pillar for support, would assign some of the Amazons to the fourth century.1 Furtwangler2 stands for the integrity of the tradition of a competition. "This statement," he says," has met with undeserved contempt. It should be considered as confirmed from the fact that copies of precisely four statues of standing Amazons still exist, which on the one hand are clearly to be referred to four different artists, and, on the other, are evidently closely connected by identical measurements, by a general similarity of conception and dress, and by their belonging to the same period of art." While three types of Amazons have usually been recognized, the Berlin type (Fig. 75), the Capitoline3 type, and the Mattei type, assigned to Polykleitos, Kresilas, and Pheidias, respectively, Furtwangler claims that the Amazon of the Villa Doria Pamfili6 represents the type of Phradmon, and that it comes nearest to the Polykleitan type. That it stands alone, and yet resembles the Polykleitan type Fig 75.--Polykleitos' Amazon. (Berlin Museum.) 1 The same attitude is seen on gems, one of which appears to belong to the fifth century. 2 Masterpieces, 128. 8 Brunn-Bruckmann, No. 349. 4 Brunn-Bruckmann, No. 350; Von Mach, 121. 5 Masterp...
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Very Good. Avery good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Ghost of a hot cuppa having been laid on the front cover.
