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FROM 600 b.c. TO ABOUT 540 b.c. 117
chisel and ‘bull-nosed’ chisel, were in full use when No. 679
was cut. The same tools are employed more and with greater
assiduity in the ‘full Chiot’ group, but in no new way.
4. The Attic artists, native born, attempt to emulate the
island artists, sometimes with success, sometimes without.
They, too, use exactly the same tools and methods but lack
something of the inspiration of the island sculptors.
5. Elsewhere, less invention is seen than in Attica in the
works of island and east Greek artists. Drapery seems flatter
and less entertaining. But at the close of the period when
island artists seem to have been active, the drill was brought
into use for very minor detail of drapery.
6. The chronology of technique over this period must of
necessity be without exact precision. But it seems that some-
where about 530-525 the drill began to be used. During
the ensuing quarter of a century its use increases, as will be
seen later. The claw-chisel remains a difficult tool to date.
Its traces are not seen on unfinished areas of works of the
first half of the century and, while instances to the contrary
may be discoverable, it seems likely that it was not much
employed before the middle of the century. Indeed, it is
possible that it accompanied the drill and came into use at
the same time. The sculptor of the Moschophoros did not
use it at all.
In effect, from 600 to 530 sculptors merely developed the
technique already used in its broad outlines in the seventh
century.
7. Here, as in the Samo-Naxian group of sculptures, the
style is largely controlled by the technique. The extensive
use of stone abrasives and the minimal use of the flat-chisel,
originated in the seventh century and developed with greater
elaboration in the early sixth, has tended towards flattened
surfaces and smoother mouldings of the main structure.
No. 679 is typical of the fullest possible and most successful
development along these lines. In its combination of suave-
ness and severity this particular mode of surface treatment can
chisel and ‘bull-nosed’ chisel, were in full use when No. 679
was cut. The same tools are employed more and with greater
assiduity in the ‘full Chiot’ group, but in no new way.
4. The Attic artists, native born, attempt to emulate the
island artists, sometimes with success, sometimes without.
They, too, use exactly the same tools and methods but lack
something of the inspiration of the island sculptors.
5. Elsewhere, less invention is seen than in Attica in the
works of island and east Greek artists. Drapery seems flatter
and less entertaining. But at the close of the period when
island artists seem to have been active, the drill was brought
into use for very minor detail of drapery.
6. The chronology of technique over this period must of
necessity be without exact precision. But it seems that some-
where about 530-525 the drill began to be used. During
the ensuing quarter of a century its use increases, as will be
seen later. The claw-chisel remains a difficult tool to date.
Its traces are not seen on unfinished areas of works of the
first half of the century and, while instances to the contrary
may be discoverable, it seems likely that it was not much
employed before the middle of the century. Indeed, it is
possible that it accompanied the drill and came into use at
the same time. The sculptor of the Moschophoros did not
use it at all.
In effect, from 600 to 530 sculptors merely developed the
technique already used in its broad outlines in the seventh
century.
7. Here, as in the Samo-Naxian group of sculptures, the
style is largely controlled by the technique. The extensive
use of stone abrasives and the minimal use of the flat-chisel,
originated in the seventh century and developed with greater
elaboration in the early sixth, has tended towards flattened
surfaces and smoother mouldings of the main structure.
No. 679 is typical of the fullest possible and most successful
development along these lines. In its combination of suave-
ness and severity this particular mode of surface treatment can