Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 36
differing but slightly in character, and ofnearly equal merit, tends to a conclusionthat all three are copies, or studies, of a lostoriginal, perhaps the wounded Amazon ofPolykleitos, made famous by Pliny. Thelovely draped female statue recently setup in the Berlin museum, and publishedby… … - o M rr 1 = The Greek Standard of Excellence excellence. This is the archaic, the visiblyand admittedly archaic work : for it is thegreat glory of Phidias that he and his schoolbrought early sculpture out of archaism tofaultless excellence. The pediment statuesof the temple of Zeus at Olympia are…
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