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Six Greek sculptors (1915) (14783664375)
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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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be combined with it in someinstances.1 The question of the influence of Scopas onLysippus must be considered when we are dealing withthe later artist. But in any general estimate of thework of Scopas this element can scarcely be overlooked,for through it came an incalculable accession to thepredominance of Scopas over the more vigorous branchesof Hellenistic art. The resemblance of the head of theLansdowne Heracles to the Tegea heads has led toa general acceptance of the view that it should beattributed directly or indirectly to Scopas. It is notindeed an original, but a copy; and the character of theexpression has been somewhat conventionalised, and thefreshness of the modelling smoothed away, though notso much so as in the Meleager of the Vatican ; we caneasily imagine that the original may have been lessheavy and more vigorous. In the massive build of head,the deep eye-sockets with their curve of flesh over- l See P. Gardner in Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxiii. p. 128j Plate LVI
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HERACLES, IN LANSDOWNE HOUSE To face p. 198 Plate LVII
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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