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effect of the figure is much impaired by the restoration of
the legs, by which the weight of the body is thrown too
much on the heefs.
Ht. of ancient portion, 6 it. 8 in. Farnese Palace, Rome. Pur-
chased in 1865. De Triqueti, in Fine Arts Quarteriy, III.,
p. 214. Harrison, No. 821.
SECOND GRAECO-ROMAN ROOM. '
In the recess, on the North side :—
(135.) Discobolus.—This statue represents a young
athlete in the act of throwing the discos, and is believed to
he a copy of a celebrated bronze figure executed by Myron,
the contemporary of Phidias, which has been described by
Lucian, Quintilian, and other ancient writers.
Several other replicas in marble of the Discobolus of
Myron are extant. Of these the best is that in the Massimi
Palace at Rome, the head of which is looking back towards
the disk, thus corresponding exactly with Lucian's descrip-
tion of the original.
In the Museum at Munich is a small bronze figure
representing the same subject, in which the head has the
same backward direction. The head of the figure here
described seems to be antique, but is joined on at the base
of the neck, a piece of marble being inserted between the
neck and the torso on one side of the joint. There is
no certain evidence that this head ever belonged to the
body to which it is at present attached; and, in the absence
of any proof to the contrary, we may assume that the
original head of this figure had the same backward
direction as that of the Massimi Discobolus, the bronze at
Munich, and the figure described by Lucian.
The original bronze Discobolus, by Myron, from which,
as it is believed, the copies now extant were derived.
effect of the figure is much impaired by the restoration of
the legs, by which the weight of the body is thrown too
much on the heefs.
Ht. of ancient portion, 6 it. 8 in. Farnese Palace, Rome. Pur-
chased in 1865. De Triqueti, in Fine Arts Quarteriy, III.,
p. 214. Harrison, No. 821.
SECOND GRAECO-ROMAN ROOM. '
In the recess, on the North side :—
(135.) Discobolus.—This statue represents a young
athlete in the act of throwing the discos, and is believed to
he a copy of a celebrated bronze figure executed by Myron,
the contemporary of Phidias, which has been described by
Lucian, Quintilian, and other ancient writers.
Several other replicas in marble of the Discobolus of
Myron are extant. Of these the best is that in the Massimi
Palace at Rome, the head of which is looking back towards
the disk, thus corresponding exactly with Lucian's descrip-
tion of the original.
In the Museum at Munich is a small bronze figure
representing the same subject, in which the head has the
same backward direction. The head of the figure here
described seems to be antique, but is joined on at the base
of the neck, a piece of marble being inserted between the
neck and the torso on one side of the joint. There is
no certain evidence that this head ever belonged to the
body to which it is at present attached; and, in the absence
of any proof to the contrary, we may assume that the
original head of this figure had the same backward
direction as that of the Massimi Discobolus, the bronze at
Munich, and the figure described by Lucian.
The original bronze Discobolus, by Myron, from which,
as it is believed, the copies now extant were derived.