A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

PART II.MYRON AND PHEIDIAS.Three great names represent the early prime of Greeksculpture, namely, Myron, Pheidias, and Polyeleitos ofAigos. These three are thought to have been fellowpupils of the Argive sculptor AgeladaS.The present part of the catalogue deals with Myron andPheidias. The third part deals first with their immediatesuccessors in Attica, and then turns to Polyeleitos ofArgos and the sculptures of the Peloponnese ; and nextto the special class of Greek reliefs.MYRON.Myron of Eleutherae in Attica worked at Athens inthe first half of the fifth century b.c. Although he hadnot entirely abandoned the archaic style(notably, in hisrendering of hair, Pliny, H. N. xxxiv., 58), he was distinguishedfor his skill in representing life. His power laypartly in the rendering of vigorous movement in sculpture,as in his athletic statues, and partly in a realisticimitation of nature, as in his famous cow.No original works of Myron are extant. His bestknown work, the Discobolos, is preserved in copies, oneof which is described below. The bronze statuette ofMarsyas in the Bronze Eoom may be studied after a groupof Athene and Marsyas by Myron.250. Graeco-Koman copy of the bronze Discobolos of Myron.