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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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ne side in heavy columnar folds, and on theother modelling the form of the knee, which we seein the Athena Parthenos, and which we may recognisealso in other works, such as the Caryatids of the Erech-theum, that show strong Phidian influence. The typeof the draped figure clearly belongs to his period andschool. The head, indeed, does not resemble those wefind in the Parthenon sculptures, nor those of the copiesof the Athena Parthenos, But, it may be answered,neither architectural sculptures nor late copies of acolossal chryselephantine work can supply us with ade-quate criteria forjudging what a life-size bronze statueby Phidias would be like. In that case, however, we arereduced to inferences and probabilities; and thoughthe result may meet with general acceptance, it isimpossible to deny the right of scepticism to thosewhose study of the art of Phidias has led them to adifferent conclusion. It is to be remembered thatbefore Furtwanglers identification the Bologna head was Plate XXIX
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LEMXIAN ATHENA; HEAD IN BOLOGNA Tojace p. 112 PHIDIAS 113 generally regarded as Polyclitan rather than Attic ; andalthough the action and reaction on each other of thePeloponnesian and Attic schools in the fifth century werevery strong, as we shall see in the case of Polyclitus,this fact must be allowed its weight in the discussion. The Bologna head certainly belonged to a statue ofAthena. Whether this statue was by Phidias or madeunder strong Phidian influence, it shows a more personaland individual presentation of the goddess than wefind in the colossal statues ; the bare-headed type ofAthena, carrying her helmet in her hand, was afavourite one in fifth-century art. We need notwonder that such a type appealed by its beauty tolater critics, especially when they were accustomed tothe more individualistic work of the fourth century.Here we have a statue of Athena, which does not loseanything of the majesty and dignity of the goddess,while it divests her of her more formidable attribute

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