Harrison, Jane, 1850-1928 · London : Williams and Norgate · leaf 185
adent art, we shall see mostclearly the intimate relation of art and ritual;we shall, as it were, walk actually across thattransition bridge of ritual which leads fromactual life to art. The date of this famous Apollo cannotbe fixed, but it is clearly a copy of a typebelonging to the fourth century… … The Apollo BelvedereFig. 6. 184 GREEK SCULPTURE 185 He stands tiptoe and in a moment will haveleft the earth. The Greek sculptors genius wasall focussed, as we shall presently see, on thehuman figure and on the mastery of its manypossibilities of movement and action. Greekstatues can roughly be…
Art, Primitive · Ritual · Aesthetics · Art and religion · Greek drama (Tragedy)
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