Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 166
VASE PAINTING IN GREECE 143 It is extremely interesting also to note how thetype changes as the skill grows, until after thetime of Pheidias an elegance and grace manifestthemselves in the character of the composition andthe management of line that brings the work of thegreater potters—Duris,… … Herakles and Atlas — to a plane quite in keeping with the perfection ofthe greater arts of architecture and sculpture. The story of Herakles, whose various trials ofstrength every schoolboy knows, is shown in everydetail by innumerable illustrations. Here we seehim in actual combat with the Nemean…
Painting, Greek · Painting, Greco-Roman
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