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A short history of art (1913)

De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910, Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 116

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e have a pure andelevated ideal of the goddess of love. Jupiter Olympus, as represented in the gold-and-ivorystatue made for the great temple of Olympia, was anotherof these types. We can probably form some idea of it fromthe impression of an existing coin of Elis. The Greekslooked upon it as a… … CLEOMENES UFFIZI GALLERY VENUS DE MEDICIExample of decline, when sculpture had lost its high spirit of ab-straction and the type has been individualized.

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