Fitzwilliam Museum - Paris 1924 Sport, Art and the Body

See the Fitzwilliam Museum's Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body.

You're greeted by a rather shabby alabaster cast of this marble: 

See Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head).

Apparently his eyes are averted, meaning that he wishes to be admired. I thought about the process of making a carving like this and what was involved in an age where any perception of a living thing was abstracted out of one continuous movement. They had no photographs in those days! See Hannah Fry on Mind Reading.

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