The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 72
was found in 1877, amid the ruins of the very temple inwhich the old Greek traveler saw it standing in its glory. Praxiteles flourished about the middle of the fourthcentury B. c, and was one of the greatest masters of hisart in Greece. His favorite subject was Aphrodite, but hedid not confine… … THE HERMES OF PRAXITELES. <^o ^^ PuJoiici^, /. 4 » rli ^;^-—» f^ hrudson Park C;ai;ch, 6C L^iROY STREET ^._ ^\^ p U .- -^ 11^ K-|.r: : Pu-|( C: 6G L-rOY STRLlT ^- r ^^// GREEK SCULPTURES 31 statue, in which the god is shown holding the infant Bac-chus on one arm; in the other hand, now lost, was…
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