Greek bronzes . Fig. 6. Archaic Greek Museum. 24 GREEK BRONZES These statues are known from ancient copies, and as regards one of themwe may very confidently say that no better comparison for it couldbe found than our bronze statuette. The type of head is differentto some degree, and the action of the figure is not quite the Fig. 7.—Archaic Greek Bronze. British Museum. Yet in both figures we have a striking similarity even in conception,still more in the rendering of the bodily forms. There can be nodoubt for a moment that our bronze belongs to exactly the period atwhich
Greek bronzes . Fig. 6. Archaic Greek Museum. 24 GREEK BRONZES These statues are known from ancient copies, and as regards one of themwe may very confidently say that no better comparison for it couldbe found than our bronze statuette. The type of head is differentto some degree, and the action of the figure is not quite the Fig. 7.—Archaic Greek Bronze. British Museum. Yet in both figures we have a striking similarity even in conception,still more in the rendering of the bodily forms. There can be nodoubt for a moment that our bronze belongs to exactly the period atwhich Antenor made his famous group of the two Tyrannicides. It tellsprecisely the same story of the first efforts of Athenian sculptors to break GREEK BRONZES 25 away from the conventionalisms of older times and to seek gradually anew sphere in the rendering of an inner organic vitality. No one cansay that Antenor was the first to strike out on this new path. Others ofhis contemporaries may equally have been searching in the same is quite possible. But we have to remember also that the taskassigned him in making a group of the two Tyrannicides was one whichcould not but have stirred in him a deep and strong emotion. Thechildren in the streets of Athens were then singing a rude ballad of howHarmodios and Aristogeiton, conceali
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