DISCUS THROWER
by Myron
460-450 B.C.
Museo Nazionale, Rome
Created about a decade or so before work started on the Acropolis, Myron's Discus Thrower was revolutionary. The figure still retains an inner poise and an overall balance. But the energy has opened up, moving with a new sense of the world. This is a marble copy of the bronze original.
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