which form the walls of the human structure. He did notlay so much stress on the skeleton, or on the leading lines of thefigure, as his early predecessors. His care was mainly devoted torendering the subtle outward curves and contours, and this heoften carries to such excess as to produce a result… … Fig. 227.—Bronze Sphinx, Louvre. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. Psemetheks, clothed in a long robe, standing before the goddessHathor who is in the form of a cow. The head and torso arefinely chiselled, but, through an exaggerated desire for elegance, thearms have been made far too long, and the…
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