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PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART
chap.
school (Fig. 30), the difference in the attitudes of the legs being
striking.
Professor Lange, with many other writers, is mistaken in
too definitely associating this change with Polycleitus. As I
Fig. 29. — Diadumenus, Argive.
have already observed, it proceeds during the fifth century in
all schools, and the merit of Polycleitus does not lie in his
being the first to attempt the problem, but in the particular
solution which he discovered. The words proprium ejus est
uno crure ut insisterent signa excogitasse have, in fact, been mis-
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART
chap.
school (Fig. 30), the difference in the attitudes of the legs being
striking.
Professor Lange, with many other writers, is mistaken in
too definitely associating this change with Polycleitus. As I
Fig. 29. — Diadumenus, Argive.
have already observed, it proceeds during the fifth century in
all schools, and the merit of Polycleitus does not lie in his
being the first to attempt the problem, but in the particular
solution which he discovered. The words proprium ejus est
uno crure ut insisterent signa excogitasse have, in fact, been mis-