Six Greek sculptors . HEAD OF LANSDOWXE HERACLES Between pp. 198 and 199 Plate LVIII. HEAD OF LANSDOWKE HERACLES To face p. 139 SCOP AS 199 shadowing and enveloping the outer corner of the eye,in the broad nose and half-open lips, we can recogniseall the characteristics that we have learnt to look for inthe work of Scopas. The body, too, has the massivetype, with the muscles clearly mapped out, that we findin the work of Polyclitus, and so confirms the dependenceof Scopas upon the Argive school of athletic art. It isin the proportions of body and limbs, as well as of thehead, that we see the c
Six Greek sculptors . HEAD OF LANSDOWXE HERACLES Between pp. 198 and 199 Plate LVIII. HEAD OF LANSDOWKE HERACLES To face p. 139 SCOP AS 199 shadowing and enveloping the outer corner of the eye,in the broad nose and half-open lips, we can recogniseall the characteristics that we have learnt to look for inthe work of Scopas. The body, too, has the massivetype, with the muscles clearly mapped out, that we findin the work of Polyclitus, and so confirms the dependenceof Scopas upon the Argive school of athletic art. It isin the proportions of body and limbs, as well as of thehead, that we see the contrast with the lighter andmore agile Lysippean type which we see in the Agias—a contrast too essential to be explained by the factthat heavier proportions are suitable to the type ofHeracles^ and emphasised the more by the similarity inposition of the two statues. This position is a variationon the rigid walking pose which we see in the Dory-phorus of Polyclitus, which, in the similarity of theposition of the arms and upper part of the torso, theLansdowne Heracles again recall
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