Six Greek sculptors . y this pose was grasped; one hipwas allowed to be slightly higher than the other, as theweight was divided unevenly between the two legs ;and, this change once introduced, the central line of thebody could no longer remain rigidly vertical, butacquired the elastic curve which we find already inworks of the transitional age, and which is merelyfurther developed in the statues of Polyclitus and evenof Praxiteles. A single type has served us so far forillustration, but it was the type which is the mostcharacteristic of early Greek sculpture, and whichoffered most opportunity
Six Greek sculptors . y this pose was grasped; one hipwas allowed to be slightly higher than the other, as theweight was divided unevenly between the two legs ;and, this change once introduced, the central line of thebody could no longer remain rigidly vertical, butacquired the elastic curve which we find already inworks of the transitional age, and which is merelyfurther developed in the statues of Polyclitus and evenof Praxiteles. A single type has served us so far forillustration, but it was the type which is the mostcharacteristic of early Greek sculpture, and whichoffered most opportunity for its development—a type tooof almost universal application, as it served alike forgod or for athlete, for dedication in a shrine, or for amonument over a tomb. It would be possible to tracea similar evolution in the case of the draped figure andits drapery, noticing how the forms of the figure weregradually realised through the drapery that at firstenvelops them like a solid mass ; how the various tex- Plate III. BRONZE STATUETTE, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM To face p. 20 Plate IV
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