CANONS OF PROPORTION. 65 
beauty and strength. They are the most splendid human beings that the 
art of any period has created.’”! 
CANONS OF PROPORTION. 
In attempting to identify a given statue as the copy of a work by this 
or that master, certain well-known canons of proportion, which were 
taught and Practiced by various Greek sculptors and schools, must be 
taken into consideration. 
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Fic. 4.— Bronze Head of an Olympic Victor, from Her- 
culaneum. Museum of Naples. 
Greek art may, like Greek philosophy and poetry, be summarized 
under the names of three qualities which constantly occur in classical 
hterature—ovpperpia, evpvOuta or pududs, and dvadoyia.” Symmetry 
may be defined as “‘that technical regard for the placing of the parts to 
the best advantage,’ the symmetrical arrangement of the parts of 
1Furtw.-Urlichs, Denkmaeler, already cited, p. 63,n.3. (Translated under the title Greek 
and Roman Sculpture by H. Taylor, 1914; p. 119.) 
See F. W. G. Foat, Anthropometry of Greek Statues, J. H. S., XX XV, 1915, pp. 225 f. (p. 226). 
