mo-ment, reduced, in short, to a type, to a majestic abstraction ?For the Greeks who lived an outward life this ideal was suffi-cient. The climate, the morals, the religion, and a thousanddetails of the life of ancient Greece inclined the taste of thesculptors towards athletic and voluptuous forms,… … MEDITATION.—By M. Paul Dubois. MODERN FRENCH SCULPTURE. 231 Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the Venus of Syracuse, im-mortal monuments of athletic crace and radiant visual beauty.But it is absurd to tell us that the limits and laws of sculpturewere eternally fixed by the Greeks, and that if we…
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