Identifier: sixgreeksculptor00gard (find matches)
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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e he was the most popular of all Greek sculptors,his work naturally came to be most frequently imitated,and the imitators, consulting their own taste and thatof their patrons, often reproduced and exaggerated theless admirable qualities of the originals, the grace andease of pose and composition, the softness of flesh, thesentimentality of expression, and failed to realise or toreproduce the breadth and nobility of type and concep-tion which were probably to be seen in most of themasters own works. It is here that the discovery ofan undoubted original from his hand, even if it be onlyone of his minor works, has proved invaluable to us.In future all study of the works of Praxiteles mustbegin with the Hermes at Olympia. What we know of Praxiteles from external sources isbut little. None of his works can be exactly dated,but they all fit in with most probability to the timeimmediately before the middle of the fourth century;thus he was approximately a contemporary of Scopas. Pi Ate XLIII
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HERMES, BY PRAXITELES, AT OLYMPIA To face p. 143 PRAXITELES 143 There is, indeed, no chronological evidence to place theone master before the other. But Praxiteles seems tocome earlier in the development of sculpture, and hiswork was rather the perfection of what preceded thanthe origin of what was to follow. He was an Athenian,and he followed throughout the traditions of the Atticschool, which often claimed him as its greatest and mostrepresentative master. He is said to have been thepupil of Cephisodotus, who was probably either hisfather or his elder brother. The most interestingstories about him refer to his relations with the famousPhryne, the most beautiful among women. He gaveher what he himself esteemed the best of his works, theEros which she dedicated at Thespiae. He also madea statue of her, which was set up at the same place, andanother for Delphi, and she is said to have served asthe model for the most famous of his statues, theAphrodite of Cnidus. His favourite material

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