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The Greek painters' art (1905)

Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 82

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product of one mind,one creative hand. We simply cannot conceivethat rock without its crown of temples. Theybelong to each other as if by right of originalcreation. Nor do even the shattered columns andbroken walls detract from that effect. INTRODUCTION 59 As one nears the summit, the Propylaia, a… … Akropolis Zeus — in full perfection of beauty, from the rug-ged skull of the giant rock. In imagination one walks beside the white-robedmaidens, the spirited youths, the dignified elders,the serious magistrates who, more than two thou-sand years ago, slowly ascended the same marblesteps in the…

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