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master this style. However, the great effort of the athlete is not reflected in his facial expression, which displays only a tenuous concentration. The torso shows no muscular strain, even though the limbs are outflung. The other trademark of Myron embodied in this sculpture is how well the body is proportioned: the
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When you came into the hall," he said, "didn't you notice a totally gorgeous statue up there, by Demetrios the portraitist?" "Surely you don't mean the discus-thrower," said I, "the one bent over into the throwing-position, with his head turned back to the hand that holds the discus, and the opposite
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The Discobolus was sculpted at a time when Greece was at the zenith of its artistic and athletic achievements. The ancient Olympic Games were not just sporting events but were deeply intertwined with Greek culture and religion. Myron's work embodies the Greek philosophy of the harmonious development
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As Clark observed, "Myron has created the enduring pattern of athletic energy. He has taken a moment of action so transitory that students of athletics still debate if it is feasible, and he has given it the completeness of a cameo. To a modern eye, it may seem that Myron's desire for perfection has
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Myron's skill is evident in his ability to convey a sense of movement of the body at the moment of its maximum tension and splendor within a static medium, transforming a routine athletic activity into a representation of balance and harmony. Myron is often credited with being the first sculptor to
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have been recovered, and torsos that were already known in the 17th century but that had been wrongly restored and completed, have since been identified as further repetitions after Myron's model. For one such example, in the early 18th century
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An explanation for his inefficient discus throwing could be that the ancient Olympic sportsmen had a set rotation of three quarters before the discus was thrown. This rotation could well have been a deliberate handicap to make the sport more
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in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus. Its Greek original in bronze lost, the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which is cheaper than bronze, such as the
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identified the sculpture as a copy from the original of Myron. It was instantly famous, though the Massimo jealously guarded access to it (Haskell and Penny 1981:200).
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paid Jenkins £400 for the statue, which arrived at the semi-public gallery Townley commissioned in Park Street, London, in 1794. The head was wrongly restored, as
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is presented nude. His pose appears unnatural to a human and is considered as per modern standards a rather inefficient way to throw the discus.
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May/June 2005, in connection with a British Museum exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of the Townley purchase.
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who supports himself on his arm as he sinks to the ground; the completed sculpture was donated before 1734 by
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had been applied in the 17th and 18th centuries to a standing figure holding a discus, a
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at Tor Paterno in the former royal estate of Castel Porziano, now also conserved in the
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in 1790, and was purchased by the English antiquary and art dealer established in Rome,
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A discussion about the sculpture between Beth Harris and Steven Zucker on video at
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soon pointed out, but Townley was convinced his was the original and better copy.
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in 1792. (Another example, also found at Tivoli at this date, was acquired by the
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made him suppress too rigorously the sense of strain in the individual muscles".
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could be found in many large academic collections, now mostly dispersed.
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knee slightly flexed, like one who will spring up again after the throw?
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Tony Kitto, "The celebrated connoisseur: Charles Townley, 1737-1805"
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human corpse posed like the original sculpture, discus included.
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restored a torso that is now recognized as an example of Myron's
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Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900
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negotiated to buy it, and eventually succeeded in 1938, when
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in the National Roman Museum in Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
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Yet another copy was discovered in 1906 in the ruins of a
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was long known from descriptions, such as the dialogue in
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Kenneth Clark illustrated it in the 1956 edition of
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Index


Glyptothek

National Gallery of Denmark
Myron
discus thrower
Greek
sculpture
Classical period
Ancient Greek athletics
Classical sculpture
Archaic sculpture
kalokagathia

Attic

discus thrower
Stabiae
Myron
Lucian of Samosata
Philopseudes

Myron
Lucian of Samosata
Discophoros
Ennio Quirino Visconti
Naukydes of Argos
Pliny
Myron
Esquiline Hill

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