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Six Greek sculptors (1915) (14783661245)
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Title: Six Greek sculptors
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939
Subjects: Sculptors Sculpture, Greek
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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It will be better to reserve any further discussion ofthis pediment until we have noticed the extant remainsof the sculpture found at Tegea. Some of these, whichhave been known for a considerable time, are the boarshead and two heads of heroes, one helmeted and onebare, together with some other fragments of limbs.The more recent excavations, by M. Mendel, of theFrench school at Athens, have added two more headsof warriors, one of them covered with a lions scalp, Tlate LI
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HEAD OF HERACLES, FROM TEGEA, BY SCOPAS. AFTER BULLETIN DE COliR. HEL1ENIQUE, 1901, VII To face p. 183 SCOPAS 183 after the custom of Heracles, and some portions ofother figures and of dogs. All these are in the marblefrom the local quarries of Doliana. Other portions offigures found in the recent excavations are in Parianmarble; among these are a torso of a female figure inAmazonian dress, and a head on the same scale, andvery probably belonging to this torso. It is probablethat all these fragments come from the pediments ofthe temple; the torso, indeed, can hardly representany other figure than Atalanta herself. The differenceof material is the only difficulty; but this may beexplained by the fact that the Parian marble belongs tothe only female figure—so far as we know—in the twogroups. For a sculptor might well prefer to use thefiner material to render the face and arms and legs ofthe heroine; they would be left, as was usual in Greeksculpture, in the natural colour of the mar
Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862–1939) was a British classicist and archaeologist; he was born in London 16 March 1862, son of Thomas G., stockbroker, and Ann Pearse; educated at the City of London School, and afterwards entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was appointed Director of the British School of Archaeology, Athens, 1887-95. He assisted Petrie in the excavation of the city of Naucratis 1885-6, helping then and later to establish important connections between Saite Egypt and Greece, and contributing the chapter on the inscriptions to the report. He was of great help to Petrie in his work of cross-dating Egyptian and Aegean objects; he also contributed to Art of Egypt through the Ages, 1931; he died in Maidenhead, 27 Nov. 1939.
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