Identifier: greekbronzes00murr (find matches)
Title: Greek bronzes
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904
Subjects: Bronzes, Greek
Publisher: London : Seeley and Co. New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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erence of opinion. In the list of bronze statuesby Praxiteles, Pliny mentions a figure which he calls a Pseliumene, that isto say, a woman or goddess wearing or putting on an armlet. It hasbeen argued that this Greek epithet may mean also the putting on of anecklace, and that this is the action of our bronze. I doubt if this canbe right. The action is more like a reminiscence of the Diadumenos ofPolycleitos, both hands being raised as if just having finished thefastening of a diadem or ribbon round the head. In our bronze themovement of the arms is practically the same as in that statue, andwe know from tradition that Praxiteles did modify the older type ofa Diadumenos by Polycleitos. At all events it seems to me beyondquestion that our bronze is a Praxitelian variant of that statueadapted to a female figure. It will be noticed how strong is the re-semblance between the head of the statuette and the head of Hypnos(Plate II.), especially in the very beautiful treatment of the hair with
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^- ^ GREEK BRONZES 73 its soft tresses carried back from the brow and bound in the simplestpossible manner with a narrow fillet.

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