. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. ficial Fide Commisso, would have passed with therest of the Borghese Museum into the possession of the City of belief that it is a work of the contemj)orary and rival of Plieidias,the Argive sculptor of the Diadumenos in the British ^Museum, theDoryphoros at Naples and the Amazon in Berlin, Signor Bardinisliares with many European critics of eminence. Peter von Bienkowskihas written an
. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. ficial Fide Commisso, would have passed with therest of the Borghese Museum into the possession of the City of belief that it is a work of the contemj)orary and rival of Plieidias,the Argive sculptor of the Diadumenos in the British ^Museum, theDoryphoros at Naples and the Amazon in Berlin, Signor Bardinisliares with many European critics of eminence. Peter von Bienkowskihas written an exhaustive monograph On a Statue by Polykleitos inthe monthly Review of the Leij)sic Museum, of which he is the Director,lie htgins by saying: To Signor Bardini of Florence belongs theStatue of a Youth in Parian marble. This statue comes from the VillaBorghese and is vei-y well preserved, having retained even its originalsurface: and continues: As one can see almost at the first glance,we have here to do with a work of Polykleitos. Its movement and bear-ing are so intimately suggestive of the Tliadunienos that, were it notfor the fortunate preservation of the head, one might have sujiposed this. c^ No. -127—Pakian Tousd ok a Yoithfil Athlete [Xo. i27—Continued^ torso to be a replica of that statuu. Like tlie Uiadunienos, the BardiniYouth arrests his stride and turns his head to the rigiit. The writerthen points out that tiie proportions of tlie Bardini athlete scarcelydiffer from those of the celebrated Canon of Polvkleitos and that thedetails of the modeling, such as the lyre-shaped outlines of the abdom-inal cavitj-, are of themselves essential characteristics of the Polykleitosstyle, though these, he avers, are displayed by the head even more thanby the body. The shape of the head, the arrangement of the hair, theshape of the ears, are all as in the Doryphoros and the statues relatedto it. Finally, he adds: The half-open mouth, the broad planes ofthe delicate ch
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