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  • Here is also the famous Discobolus, which is esteemed the first statue in

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 Various

  • You may carry your fancy on these lines as far as you like, and you may include any figure that pleases you, from the well-known 'Discobolus' (over your case of sporting books!) to the exquisite statue which many still persist in calling the

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • Though the cow was so much talked of, the artistic fame of Myron rests more upon the "Discobolus," or quoit-thrower.

    A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

  • "Discobolus," and sent his drawing to the Royal Academy, in the hope of being admitted there as a student.

    The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

  • We adore your kouros-boy curls, Praxitelean torso and the "Discobolus" curve of your back.

    Austin360 - XL Headlines 2009

  • Here it was the sculptor Miron saw his "Discobolus" which he immortalized and gave to all the later world; "stooping down to take aim, his body turned in the direction of the hand which holds the quoit, one knee slightly bent as though he meant to vary the posture and to rise with the throw." [

    A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

  • Marino looks like a late-20th-century version of classical Greek sculpture -- the National Football League's own Discobolus.

    Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint Jessica Dawson 2010

  • Taking centre stage at Pride House will be Slapshotolus above, a bronze sculpture of a nude hockey player by Alberta artist Edmund Haakonson, who connects antiquity with present day by referencing the pose of the ancient Greek sculpture of the nude discus thrower, aka the Discobolus.

    Archive 2010-01-01 gay person of color 2010

  • Taking centre stage at Pride House will be Slapshotolus above, a bronze sculpture of a nude hockey player by Alberta artist Edmund Haakonson, who connects antiquity with present day by referencing the pose of the ancient Greek sculpture of the nude discus thrower, aka the Discobolus.

    Pride House, Slapshotolus - 2010 Olympics, Paralympics gay person of color 2010

  • Are we prepared to exclude such art from Ireland and to sail in a ship of fools, fools that dressed bodies Michael Angelo left naked, Town Councillors of Montreal who hid the Discobolus† in the cellar?

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

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