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The Holkham Head and the Parthenon Pediment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Guy Dickins
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Extract

Before accepting Sir Charles Waldstein's amazing theory that the colossal female head at Holkham Hall belongs to the East Pediment of the Parthenon, we have the right to demand from him some evidence on the following points :—

(1) That there is reason to connect the head with Athens and the Acropolis,

(2) That the material is identical with the other pediment marbles,

(3) That the style is Pheidian, or at any rate fifth-century Attic, and

(4) That it is an architectural and not an independent piece of sculpture.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 34 , November 1914 , pp. 122 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1914

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References

1 The Laborde head was bought in Venice, but it had belonged to Morosini's secretary, and thus had clear claims to Attic origin.