reference to nature is no longer required when he has madehis final choice between the different methods which his artemploys. In devoting himself to the reproduction of certainfeatures for which he has a marked preference, he has himselfproduced types which he thenceforward takes pleasure in… … Fig. 55.—Isis nurhing Horus. Ptolemaic bronze ; in the LouvTe. Height, 19 inches. The Monuments of the Memphite Period. 89 Greece, the first attempts at plastic expression, the first rude effortsof the modeller or painter; but they carry us to the end of thatperiod which, in the case of other…
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