How far, however, such statues could be called works of art, or how far they were wrought by native Greeks, it is impossible to determine [180].

Certain it is that the memorable and gigantic advance in the art of SCULPTURE was not made till about the 50th Olympiad (B.C.

580), when Dipaenus and Scyllis first obtained celebrity in works in marble (wood and metals were the earliest materials of sculpture).

The great improvements in the art seem to have been coeval with the substitution of the naked for the draped figure.

Beauty, and ease, and grace, and power, were the result of the anatomical study of the human form.