Plaster Cast: The Discobolos after Myron, Discus Thrower

This is a replica of the famed statue in bronze by the Greek sculptor Myron of Eleutherae, a village on the borders of Attica and Boeotia in Greece. Myron, one of the greatest of the Greek sculptors, was a contemporary of Phidias in the first half of the 5th century B.C. His fame rests chiefly on his powers to represent the harmoniously developed form of an athlete in the very crisis of some feat of bodily strength or skill. Of all his works, the greatest is considered to be this discobolus in which every limb and every muscle partakes in and contributes to the main action of the body.

Comparanda: A marble copy of the statue found in Hadrian's Villa in 1791 is now in the British Museum. Other copies may be seen in the Vatican and in Munich.

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