Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 214
in their human shape.^The relief is, moreover, one of the most exquisite com-positions left us by Greek art (plate xx.), and showswhat might have been accomplished by the loniansin the way of centralised monolatric design, had nottheir inspiration been diverted into other channels bythe influence… … 5 ^ SYMBOLISM ON ROMAN TOMBSTONES 151 though not unknown to Attic art, remains character-istic of Ionian, or more probably Graeco-Asiatic art,whence it may have influenced that of early Latium.(below, p. 168). At a later date a splendid exampleoccurs on the long sides of the lid of the…
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