Six Greek sculptors . DIADUMENUS, AFTER POLYCLITUS, FROM DELOS To face p. 124. s - (23 x p< Oft POLYCLITUS 125 which of them is most faithful to their commonoriginal. The statue represents a youth somewhatyounger than the Doryphorus. His position is similarin the slow advance indicated by the position of thelegs; but it is less appropriate here; for the athletehas both arms raised in the act of binding aroundhis head the flat fillet over which the victors wreathis to be placed. This motive gives an admirableopportunity for a display of the beautiful proportionsof the upper part of the torso
Six Greek sculptors . DIADUMENUS, AFTER POLYCLITUS, FROM DELOS To face p. 124. s - (23 x p< Oft POLYCLITUS 125 which of them is most faithful to their commonoriginal. The statue represents a youth somewhatyounger than the Doryphorus. His position is similarin the slow advance indicated by the position of thelegs; but it is less appropriate here; for the athletehas both arms raised in the act of binding aroundhis head the flat fillet over which the victors wreathis to be placed. This motive gives an admirableopportunity for a display of the beautiful proportionsof the upper part of the torso. If we had no othercopy of this statue besides that from Vaison in theBritish Museum, it would be classified without hesi-tation as similar in type and style to the Doryphorus ;it shows the same heavy forms, the same clearly definedmuscles and even the face and hair are not dissimilar,allowing for the effect of the fillet. But other copiesof the statue vary very greatly from this. Notablytwo heads at Cassel and Dresden (the latter here repro-duced)—to take the most extre
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