Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 278
theartistic merits ofthe portraits;and in the thirdplace, the highlyrealistic treat-ment of the best,and thereforethe earliest, can Sappho, Pompeii hardly have been the work of any other period thanthe second century before Christ. It seems impos-sible to ascribe it to any other epoch of Greek… … 256 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART It is also proved without question that these por-traits were pictures of heathen people, since not asingle example, to my knowledge, has Christian sym-bolism upon it, while many have Egyptian gods andsymbols used as motives of decoration on the gilt casewhich when found…
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