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PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART
chap.
golden colossus of Zeus of the same fabric was preserved at
Olympia. The fabric may be studied in a bronze figure from a
tomb at Polledrara, preserved in the British Museum (Fig. 21).
The second method of'working was casting the parts of a statue
in separate moulds and then welding or soldering them to-
gether. It may be that this improvement in method was intro-
Fig. 20. — From Olympia. Fig. 21. — Figure from Polledrara.
duced by the Samian artists, Rhoecus and Theodoras, who lived
in the days of Croesus and Polycrates. A fine kylix at Berlin1
gives a representation of this kind of work (Fig. 21): a sculp-
tor's workshop is shown, in which colossal bronze figures are
1 Gerhard, Coupes Grecques et Btrusques, PI. XII., repeated in many books
and dictionaries.
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART
chap.
golden colossus of Zeus of the same fabric was preserved at
Olympia. The fabric may be studied in a bronze figure from a
tomb at Polledrara, preserved in the British Museum (Fig. 21).
The second method of'working was casting the parts of a statue
in separate moulds and then welding or soldering them to-
gether. It may be that this improvement in method was intro-
Fig. 20. — From Olympia. Fig. 21. — Figure from Polledrara.
duced by the Samian artists, Rhoecus and Theodoras, who lived
in the days of Croesus and Polycrates. A fine kylix at Berlin1
gives a representation of this kind of work (Fig. 21): a sculp-
tor's workshop is shown, in which colossal bronze figures are
1 Gerhard, Coupes Grecques et Btrusques, PI. XII., repeated in many books
and dictionaries.