メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「Today marks the start of the first modern Olympic games, held April 6–15, 1896, in Athens―1503 years after the last ancient games in 393 AD. 🏅The 1896 Olympics featured 14 events, including discus, or diskos, as it was called in ancient Greece. This bronze thrower is preparing to swing the diskos forward and over his head with his left hand, then transfer it to his right hand, and release it with the force of the accumulated momentum. The beauty of the statuette lies in the calm and concentrated physiognomy that forms part of a perfectly developed and disciplined body―one of the ancient Greece’s most esteemed values. 👉 See this bronze diskos thrower on view in Gallery 153.⁣ ⁣ 📸 Bronze diskos thrower, ca. 480–460 B.C. Rogers Fund, 1907. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. #TheMet」4月6日 23時31分