Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 75
N scenes are depicted. It is just possible, too, that the Vaphio cups may represent a scene of ' bull-grappling ' (ravpoKaOdipia) by athletes. The Minoan ladies are pictured (as we find also in Egyptian art and on early Greek vases) with a skin of chalky white- ness. They are dressed in the same… … 17. Acrobats and Elands (?) incredible wasp-waists. Such figures are found both in colour and also incised on seals (see Figs. 7 and 28). Besides frescoes there were found figures and other objects in terra-cotta, faience, ivory, and other material, and brightly coloured reliefs in plaster, one of…
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