Six Greek sculptors . M CO O M fa co ^ o z a; a o O KQ Plate XXXIII. HEADS FROM LYCIAN SARCOPHAGUS. AFTER HAMDY-BEY ANDREIXACH, OP. (IT., DETAIL OX Pl. XIV Between pp. 11G fw/ 117 CHAPTER V POLYCLITUS Polyclitus is the most typical of all Greek sculptors;and perhaps, for this very reason, his personality mayseem at first sight less interesting than that of otherswhose work was less perfect. When we read the ancientcriticisms of his style, we are often more impressed bythe statement that his statues were almost all of auniform type, that he affected with monotony certainposes and proportions, t
Six Greek sculptors . M CO O M fa co ^ o z a; a o O KQ Plate XXXIII. HEADS FROM LYCIAN SARCOPHAGUS. AFTER HAMDY-BEY ANDREIXACH, OP. (IT., DETAIL OX Pl. XIV Between pp. 11G fw/ 117 CHAPTER V POLYCLITUS Polyclitus is the most typical of all Greek sculptors;and perhaps, for this very reason, his personality mayseem at first sight less interesting than that of otherswhose work was less perfect. When we read the ancientcriticisms of his style, we are often more impressed bythe statement that his statues were almost all of auniform type, that he affected with monotony certainposes and proportions, than by the estimate whichranks him even above Phidias as the most con-summate master of sculpture. Even if we make someallowance for the fact that this last appreciation wasthe product of a school of criticism which set itselfespecially to extol the Argive and Sicyonian schools ofsculpture, we must remember that it represents theview of many of those best acquainted with Greek have already noticed how the very limitation ofearly Greek sculpture contributed
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