Six Greek sculptors . tations. The generalproportions of the body are such as we should look forin a Lysippean work1—the small head and the litheand active but somewhat slender proportions of bodyand limbs—and the well-balanced poise of the figureincreases this appearance of lightness. The sketchy butmasterly modelling contrasts strongly with the ratherlaboured anatomy of the Apoxyomenos, and serves atonce to relegate the latter to the more academic sur-roundings of the Hellenistic age. But it is above all in the treatment and expression ofthe face that the Agias gives us a new conception ofth
Six Greek sculptors . tations. The generalproportions of the body are such as we should look forin a Lysippean work1—the small head and the litheand active but somewhat slender proportions of bodyand limbs—and the well-balanced poise of the figureincreases this appearance of lightness. The sketchy butmasterly modelling contrasts strongly with the ratherlaboured anatomy of the Apoxyomenos, and serves atonce to relegate the latter to the more academic sur-roundings of the Hellenistic age. But it is above all in the treatment and expression ofthe face that the Agias gives us a new conception ofthe art of Lysippus. The eyes have the same depthof socket and consequent intensity of expression thatwe have noticed in heads by Scopas ; there is, indeed,a considerable resemblance in the Agias to a wholeseries of works that have, since the discovery of theTegea heads, been generally considered as made under l The lower part of both legs, about the ankle, is a clumsyrestoration, and a little too short* Plate LXVII. HEAD OF AGIAS. AFTER FOU1LLES BE DELPHES, IV., LXIV To face p. 218 LYSIPPUS 219 the influence of Scopas, if not copied from his is, however, a contrast as well as a resemblance ;the effect is similar, but the means by which it is pro-duced are different. In the Scopas heads we observedthe heavy mass of flesh above the outer corner ofeach eye, which was consistent with the breadth ofthe brow and the massive build of the head. Inthe Agios, which is of slighter proportions, there isno such over-shadowing of the outer corners of theeye; but the inner corners of the eye are set verydeep in the head and very close together; the innercorners of the eye-sockets form acute angles, runningup close to one another and leaving between them onlya narrow ridge for the base of the nose ; thus they offera strong contrast to the line of the brow, arching awayin a broad curve from the solid base of the nose andforming an obtuse angle with it, such as we see inthe Scopai
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