/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2097944
> Do you think the artists invented muscles they didn't even see in real life?

No, they exaggerated it, just like people do today.
Also, I doubt there existed many Mr Olympia sized Greeks back then. The average athlete certainly didn't look like that. I suggest looking up what athletes looked merely 120 years ago. They're nowhere near the sculptures' size.

In fact, Eugen Sandow is considered the first real bodybuilder in the world, and was almost a freak of nature in his time, more than 2000 years after the Greek civilization was at its peak. It's unlikely that any Greeks could have attained this physique, given that weight lifting and nutrition wasn't even a thing back then.

As far as size is concerned, compare this to the Hercules posted above.