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Art and environment (1914)

Phillipps, L. March (Lisle March), 1863-1917 · New York : H. Holt and Co. · leaf 119

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eas withinrange of definition the Greeks were also bringingthem within the range of sculpture ? The Greekgods and goddesses, if creatures so mortal can bearthe name, wrought by Greek chisels in firm marblecontours, calm and self-possessed, unvexed by anytumult of soul, unperplexed by any effort of… … The lady is represented exactly as she was in life.Death plays no part in the thing. Compare withthe Gothic tomb {p. 89) THE TOMB OF HEGESO p. 87 ENTER THE GREEK sculptures handling. The conception which theGreek mind had formed of divinity was itself asculptors conception. In discarding the…

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