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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
swinging back the disk in the right hand for the throw,
while the right foot is at the same time brought to the
rear (compare the Discobolos of Myron, No. 250). He
wears a narrow fillet, which has been interpreted as the
mark of an athletic victory.
Several replicas are in existence of this figure, the best
known being in the Vatican. It was assigned for a long-
time to the sculptor Naukydes, of Argos, who seems to
have been a brother of Polycleitos the Elder. There is
however no evidence whatever for this attribution, as
Pliny (H.N., xxxiv., 80) records nothing more than the
bare fact that Naukydes was esteemed for a Discobolos,
while the character of the statue does not aeree with that
of the school of Polycleitos. It has been suggested with
more probability that this is a copy of an Attic work,
viz., the bronze athlete of Alcamenes, called Encrinomenos
(Pliny, E.N., xxxiv., 72).
Veined marble. Height (without plinth), 5 feet 6 inches. Restored :
head, right arm, left forearm and disk, most of legs, plinth and
stump. Formerly in the Campana Collection. Bought, 1882.
Mansell, No. 1129; Stereoscopic, No. 144; Jahrbuch des Inst.,
1898, p. 59.
The replica in the Vatican, which was found by Gavin Hamilton on
the Appian Way. in 1771 (Journ. of Hellen. Studies, XXL,
p. 312 ; Lansdowne Catalogue, p. 60), is engraved Arch. Zeit.,
1866, pi. 209. It was attributed to Naukydes by E. Q. Visconti
{Mas. Bio-Clem., III., p. 130, and Mon. Scelti Borgh., p. 55. ed.
Milan); to Alcamenes by Kekule (Arch. Zeit., 1S66, p. 174),
followed by Overbeck (Gr. Plastik, 3rd ed., I., p. 275), and
Michaelis (Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, p. 244) ; Brunn
(Ann. dell' Inst., 1879, p. 210) assigns it to Myron. Habich
(Jahrbuch des Inst., 1898, p. 57) calls it a Hermes Discobolos,
by Naukydes, emending Pliny's 1 Naucydes Mercurio et discobolo
censetur ' by omitting or transposing the et. But cf. Michaelis,
ibid., p. 175. For Naukydes and Polycleitos see Robert, Hermes,
XXXV., p. 190.
1754. Statue of a youth. He stands on the left leg, with the
body thrown rather forward, and the right foot dragging
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
swinging back the disk in the right hand for the throw,
while the right foot is at the same time brought to the
rear (compare the Discobolos of Myron, No. 250). He
wears a narrow fillet, which has been interpreted as the
mark of an athletic victory.
Several replicas are in existence of this figure, the best
known being in the Vatican. It was assigned for a long-
time to the sculptor Naukydes, of Argos, who seems to
have been a brother of Polycleitos the Elder. There is
however no evidence whatever for this attribution, as
Pliny (H.N., xxxiv., 80) records nothing more than the
bare fact that Naukydes was esteemed for a Discobolos,
while the character of the statue does not aeree with that
of the school of Polycleitos. It has been suggested with
more probability that this is a copy of an Attic work,
viz., the bronze athlete of Alcamenes, called Encrinomenos
(Pliny, E.N., xxxiv., 72).
Veined marble. Height (without plinth), 5 feet 6 inches. Restored :
head, right arm, left forearm and disk, most of legs, plinth and
stump. Formerly in the Campana Collection. Bought, 1882.
Mansell, No. 1129; Stereoscopic, No. 144; Jahrbuch des Inst.,
1898, p. 59.
The replica in the Vatican, which was found by Gavin Hamilton on
the Appian Way. in 1771 (Journ. of Hellen. Studies, XXL,
p. 312 ; Lansdowne Catalogue, p. 60), is engraved Arch. Zeit.,
1866, pi. 209. It was attributed to Naukydes by E. Q. Visconti
{Mas. Bio-Clem., III., p. 130, and Mon. Scelti Borgh., p. 55. ed.
Milan); to Alcamenes by Kekule (Arch. Zeit., 1S66, p. 174),
followed by Overbeck (Gr. Plastik, 3rd ed., I., p. 275), and
Michaelis (Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, p. 244) ; Brunn
(Ann. dell' Inst., 1879, p. 210) assigns it to Myron. Habich
(Jahrbuch des Inst., 1898, p. 57) calls it a Hermes Discobolos,
by Naukydes, emending Pliny's 1 Naucydes Mercurio et discobolo
censetur ' by omitting or transposing the et. But cf. Michaelis,
ibid., p. 175. For Naukydes and Polycleitos see Robert, Hermes,
XXXV., p. 190.
1754. Statue of a youth. He stands on the left leg, with the
body thrown rather forward, and the right foot dragging