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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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ive, because he hasno tradition behind him. The modelling of the limbsthrough the drapery, above all in the female figures, isoften defective. All these characteristics show us thatthe work must have been carried out by a body of artistssuch as one might expect to find at Olympia, more usedto representations of the male than of the female form,and of the nude than of drapery. But the originalityand nobility of design and conception that underlie thewhole of the work transcend the convention underwhich the ^Eginetan masters had been content towork. Without Olympia, the wonderful advance fromiEgina to the Parthenon would be unintelligible; butat Olympia we see at least an aspiration towards thepower and majesty of design which was to be fulfilled inthe work of Phidias. It is not, however, in architectural sculptures onlythat a rapid progress is to be traced. For us they areinvaluable, because of the comparative certainty withwhich they can be assigned a date and place. But the Tlate vir
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HEAD OF WARRIOR, PROBABLY .EGIXETAN, FROM THE ACROrOLTS AT ATHENS To face p. 4 7 EARLY MASTERPIECES 47 great sculptors of Greece were not always or evenusually employed upon such works ; it was indeed infree statues that they had most scope for the exercise oftheir individuality; and in the case of these statues,which were actually made by their own hands, theywere less dependent on their surroundings and theirassistants. Two or three examples, however, mustsuffice before we turn to the great masters ; these two orthree are undoubtedly the work of eminent sculptors,although it may not be possible for us to assert withconfidence who those sculptors were. The bronze headof a man, evidently once he! meted, was found in theexcavations on the Athenian Acropolis. It has generallybeen recognised as a product of iEginetan art; and weknow from inscriptions that some ./Eginetan sculptors,including Onatas himself, were authors of works thatwere dedicated on the Acropolis. The ^Eginetansculptures

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