A History of Greek Sculpture From the Earliest Times Down to the Age of Pheidi
A History of Greek Sculpture From the Earliest Times Down to the Age of Pheidi
Alexander Stuart Murray
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That he was acknowledged to be a great master would be inferred from the commissions which he obtained, and is expressly stated by Pausanias 4 in the words, " if anyone, he was excellent in the plastic art. " This writer proceeds, without indicating" that Pythagoras was a native of Samos, to say that he was a pupil of Klear- chos of Rhegium, who again had been a pupil of Eucheir of Corinth. This Eucheir had studied under the Spartans Syadras and Chartas, but of them or of Eucheir nothing farthe...r is known. Klearchos, on the other hand, was celebrated among the earliest sculptors in bronze, when the technical process of working in this material still consisted in making a figure of many 1 Pliny, xxxiv. 59 : hie primus nervos et venas expressit. - Brunn, Gr. Kunsiler, i. P. 139, an 1 ( >verbeck, Gr. Plastik, 2nd c. L. P. 183. Both adopt this view as sary from the fact that older sculptures exhibit sinews and veins. Sinew. -- as the equivalent of nervi is Brunns explanation. rhis is the view of Blumner in the Rhein.
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