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Notes on some Sculptures in the Acropolis Museum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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Payne's work on the Acropolis has given us a new picture of early Attic sculpture—a fresh and dewy garland, one of the finest flowers of which is his revelation of the personality of a supreme artist, the creator of the peplos Kore 679, the Rampin rider, the head 654 (Payne, Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, pls. 11, 11a–c, 29–33, 133) and—πρὸς δὲ τόδε μέγα θαῦμα: the finest of all archaic Attic reliefs, the diskophoros Nat. Mus. 38. This last work is not included in Payne's list: and so, convinced though I am that the mere mention of this attribution is sufficient to establish it, I am bound to offer arguments in its support.
Let us compare it with the work which stands chronologically closest to it, the head 654. We must keep in mind that, at that period, a relief was not simply a projection on the slab of the side view of the body, but a free composition of the side and front view. We must therefore compare all the aspects of the head 654 in turn with the diskophoros.
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page 100 note 1 Lechat, , Sculpture Attique, 289Google Scholar; cf. von Lücken, , AM 44, 1919, 78Google Scholar, and lately Ashmole, B. in Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress, London, 1936, 21sqGoogle Scholar.
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page 101 note 1 The name doryphoros, which is sometimes given to it, expresses less than the work itself. The curious and original way in which the youth's fingers hold the spear (Noack, E., AM 1907)Google Scholar, which we see again in the relief Nat. Mus., marks him clearly as a spear-thrower.
page 102 note 1 Ö. Jh.
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page 103 note 1 Against this judgement of 1908 it is always worth recalling to memory this astonishing phrase of Wheler's in 1675: ‘The beauty of it is such that I am apt to believe, if Michael-angelo had seen it, he would have admired it as much as he did that trunk in the Vatican at Rome’ (A Journey into Greece, by Wheler, George, esq., London 1682, 56Google Scholar; cf. Deonna, , Les Apollons archaiques, 197)Google Scholar.