124 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT REST. 
have been discovered by Furtwaengler during his excavations of the 
temple site in 1901, and have been incorporated into the existing figures 
in the Glyptothek. His reconstruction, though not definitive, is more 
in accord with artistic probability than any that preceded.1 As we 
should expect from the athletic tradition of the Aeginetan school of 
sculpture just outlined, these sculptures represent finely trained nude | 
athletes, whose modeling shows great observation of nature, especially 
in the treatment of muscles and veins. In fact it has been truly said 

Fic. 20.—Figure, from the East Pediment of the Temple on 
Aegina. Glyptothek, Munich. 
that anatomical knowledge was never expressed again in Greek art so 
simply and naturally. The figures, without any excess of flesh, are 
slightly under life-size, short and stocky—shoulders square, but the 
waists slender and the legs long in proportion to the bodies—and withal 
are very compact and full of strength. The figures of the two pedi- 
ments differ slightly, the eastern being more developed than the west- 
ern. Brunn, long ago, arguing from the stele of Aristion, which-then 
was the best example extant of archaic Attic art, showed how that 
art was characterized by grace and dignity of effect, while Aeginetan 
art was characterized by a finer study of nature. This generalization 
is no longer a matter of inference, but of knowledge. 
‘Aegina, das Heiligtum der Aphaia, 1906; see Tafelbd., II, Pls. 104 (West Gable), 105 
East Gable), (the pediment groups in colors); whence Gardner, Hbk., p. 226, Pls. 50-51; ef. 
also Springer-Michaelis, pp. 214-15, figs. 400 (West Gable), 401 (East Gable); fig. 399 gives an 
older arrangement of the West Gable statues, as set up in plaster in the Strasbourg Museum. 
Since Furtwaengler’s death new attempts at reconstruction have been made, notably by P. 
Wolters, Aeginetische Beitraege, and D. Mackenzie, in B. S. 4., XV, 1908-09, pp. 274 f. and 
Pl. XIX (East Gable). For various figures, see von Mach, nos. 78-83. See Furtwaengler- 
Wolters, Beschr. d. Glypt2, pp. 95 f. and figs. 74 f. 

