Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 135
asabout his returnhome. ... Suchis a full accountof the various de-tails in this fine painting of the Thasian painter.1These paintings probably lacked correctness ofform, and perhaps composition also in its truersense, for undoubtedly single objects were still 1 The above extract is a mere outline… … Odysseus consulting the Shades ofTiresias From a Greek vase painting A BRIEF HISTORY OF GREEK PAINTING 113 used, as in more archaic painting, to symbolizeor suggest, rather than depict, the actual scene;yet with these limitations there must have been agrandeur and simple dignity that would…
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