Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 440
, we see in her theembodiment of her countrys past, when the land was subject to the rule of the Byzantine; by ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 305 her dress, her attitude, her expression, she seems a vision of the antique muse brooding insoft melancholy over the decay of glorious empire. Her dress… … a herzegovinian girl. FROM THE PICTURE BY JAROSLAV CERMAK. chiton, with its double girdle, and the himation or mantle, while the jewelled circlets pen-dent from the necklace, the girdle made of gold or silver jilates, the earrings, and the head-dress fringed with glittering ornaments, recall the…
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