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grtbaeologica1 3ntStitute of mterica THE PROPORTIONS OF THE APOLLO OF TENEA ANYONE who tries to investigate the mathematical proportions supposed to have been used by Greek sculptors of the great period in designing their statues is confronted at the outset with an insuperable obstacle: the impossibility of obtaining exact measurements. In the case of a well-preserved temple the length and the breadth of the ground-plan, or the height and width of a member, can be accurately ascertained. Division of one dimension by the other produces a ratio, which may, or may not, prove to have significance. But the Doryphorus of Polyclitus, for example, has no vertical axis; the figure is not-drawn up to its full height; there are few rigorously fixed points which can be used to measure the lengths of the separate members; the statue, morepver, exists only in Roman copies, which differ appreciably among themselves. While literary tradition compels us to believe that the sculptor designed the statue in accordance with a mathematical canon, we cannot hope to recover this canon with any degree of certainty. "Pour apprecier et mesurer sirement le Doryphore, il faudrait etre en pr'sence de l'original

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Author

L. D. Caskey

Published

1924

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)