Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London, Duckworth and co. · leaf 184
we can, bythe help of these coins, identify as far nearer to thePhidian type than the imposing but somewhat theatricalheads of Zeus produced by later Greek art, for example,the Zeus of Otricoli. In the Boston head, as on thecoins, the hair and beard are treated in smoothly wavedtresses, in contrast… … IIKAD or ZKIS, IX HOSTOX To /.re p. lOS PHIDIAS 109 qualities that have been introduced by a copyist underthe influence of fourth-century art; there is a certainsoftness of modelling and lack of the breadth andmajesty of design which we can recognise in the coin ;in this last respect, indeed, the…
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