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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