Illustrated Catalogue of the Antiquities And Casts of Ancient Sculpture in the Elbridge G. Hall And Other Collections ..
Illustrated Catalogue of the Antiquities And Casts of Ancient Sculpture in the Elbridge G. Hall And Other Collections ..
Art Institute of Chicago
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Sold, there, to Baron Prokesch, and later to the Royal Glyptothek, Munich. Restored: elbow section of right arm. One of the earliest Greek marble statues of the athletic Digitized by Google 76 THE ELBRIDGE G. HALL COLLECTION type. Whether Apollo is intended is open to doubt. The Tenea statue was found on top of a grave, and was ev- idently a sepulcral portrait of the tomb's owner. In any case, the development of the type is due to the rise of the custom of commemorating athletic victories by st...atues rep- resenting the victor as faithfully as was consonant with the undeveloped state of Greek art in the \fll, VI and V centuries. In the present instance the long hair, and the workmanship, which in many respects recalls the early wooden images, indicate the execution of the marble either in the closing years of the VII century or very early in the VI century B. C. This statue, and others like it, betray their derivation from Egyptian prototypes. The marching position with the left foot forward is Egyptian, and so are the clasped fists.
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