Lycosura and the Date of Damophon ...Columbia university., 1905 - 660 pages |
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Page 307 - ... legs of a chair or table. Great divergence of opinion prevails as to the date of these sculptures and of the artist Damophon who made them. Damophon is mentioned by no other ancient writer than Pausanias, who does not tell us his date. Before the discovery of the temple and the fragments of statuary at Lycosura it had been commonly supposed that the many statues by Damophon in temples at Messene and Megalopolis (iv. 31. 6, 7, and 10 ; viii. 31. 1-4 and 6) had been made by him for these cities...
Page 318 - He may best be understood if we regard him as a man who lived in the fourth century, but apart from the general stream of its artistic tendencies, feeling deeply the influence of the high ideals of the age of Phidias, but of sufficient originality to introduce into his art some innovations as yet unknown to his contemporaries, though they anticipate the custom of the Hellenistic age" (EA Gardner, Handbook of Greek Sculpture, p.
Page 316 - ... deliverance from the yoke of Sparta. The discovery of the remains of the images at Lycosura was at first supposed to confirm the date which archaeologists had assigned on other grounds to Damophon. Professor Waldstein declared that these fragments " would, even without the information derived from Pausanias, have been considered by any competent authority as remarkable works of the fourth century BC
Page 307 - ... temples at Messene and Megalopolis (iv. 31. 6, 7, and 10 ; viii. 31. 1-4 and 6) had been made by him for these cities at the time of their foundation in 369 and 370 BC ; in particular it was thought that the group at Messene which comprised an image of the City of Thebes and a statue of Epaminondas (though the latter was the work of a different artist) must certainly have been set up in honour of the Thebans and their great general Epaminondas by the grateful Messenians immediately after their...
Page 318 - ... anticipate the custom of the Hellenistic age" (EA Gardner, Handbook of Greek Sculpture, p. 403). Prof. Percy Gardner takes the same view, rightly observing that " the historical probabilities that Damophon worked in the time of the foundation of Megalopolis and the restoration of Messene by Epaminondas are so overpowering, that we must very closely scrutinize any archaeological evidence on the other side" {Classical Review, n (1897), p.
Page 318 - Damophon's place is intermediate between the art of Athens under Pericles and the art of Pergamon under the Attalids.1 Percy Gardner's views are summed up in the Classical Review (1897, p.