Jump to content

File:Bronze statuette of a pankratiast Louvre.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bronze_statuette_of_a_pankratiast_Louvre.jpg (400 × 475 pixels, file size: 92 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: 'A good representation of a pancratiast trying to kick his antagonist seems to be furnished by the small bronze statuette from Autun, South France, now in the Louvre (Fig. 60). (1766) This statuette is of mediocre workmanship, its hard muscles, imperfect proportions, and realism showing that it comes from the Hellenistic period of Greek art. It represents a bearded athlete, who holds his hands ready to strike and his left foot raised apparently to kick his adversary’s leg. The foot is just ready to return to its original position, so that the motive of this poor little statuette discloses a transient period of time between two movements, just as the Diskobolos and Marsyas of Myron did. We have already noted (1767) that on the head is a cap with a ring in the top, by which it could be suspended as a decorative piece, or perhaps as part of a steelyard.'
Date
Source

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61792/61792-h/61792-h.htm#f60

'Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art', Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921, p.250
Author Walter Woodburn Hyde (Q2546834)

Licensing

Creative Commons CC-Zero This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Captions

'Bronze Statuette of a Pancratiast (?), from Autun, France. Louvre, Paris.'

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

8 April 2020

image/jpeg

75036f0a39594b7cd85ce1b2c6e2e175d808347d

93,908 byte

475 pixel

400 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:43, 15 January 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:43, 15 January 2021400 × 475 (92 KB)RickyBennisonUploaded a work by Walter Woodburn Hyde from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61792/61792-h/61792-h.htm#f3 'Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art', Washington:Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921, p.250 with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata