Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 330
h drapery.On either side aregroups of figures stand-ing, one preparing thebath, the other perform-ing some sacrificial riteto the sound of music.The stately womanholding the lyre is fullof grace; her attitude,half turned from thespectator, with arm up-raised, is the embodi-ment of rhythmic… … 308 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART and her attendant suggest by their attitudes two ofthe figures from the east pediment of the Parthenon,and they possess the same characteristic that wefind in them and in the seated figures in the Par-thenon frieze,—that of sitting high and thus bring-ing the level of the…
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