{Classical Greek Art [continued (5)]} ([–] Sculpture [continued] [– Balance])[27th January 1991]

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‘The Omphalos Apollo (a copy of a work of c460-450BC[E],* now in the National Museum, Athens), a study of the way slight asymmetry of pose goes with perfect balance,** has been attributed both to Calamis and to Pythagoras – an example of the problem of attribution, for ancient descriptions are usually too imprecise to link these Roman copies with named originals.

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*NB 512C[,]2048G~m~512BCE

512S~r~448BCE(ff)←/

(64G~464[bce],[64]C448[bce])

**

		C
	/		\
g~				M~

[In the ms the sloping lines are downward-pointing arrows]

***– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:]133

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