Bernini and other studies in the history of art (1914)
Norton, Richard, 1872-1918 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 186
attribute ofDivinity we could hardly be sure that it was intended as aportrait. Probably the best known example of portraiture producedduring the period when the technique of sculpture was thor-oughly understood and mastered, is the head of Pericles byKresilas to which I have already made reference… … Plate XLVII, ART OF PORTRAITURE 79 careful copies of it. These make us sure what its artisticcharacter was/ and furthermore PHny has handed down to usan estimate of the original work by a critic of the ancientworld. This critic expressed concisely and epigrammaticallythe intention that is manifest…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 · Giorgione, 1477-1511 · Sculpture
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