Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London, Duckworth and co. · leaf 271
breadth, simplicity anddignity of type, especially in the modelling of thechest, which contrasts strongly with the too roundedand narrow forms of later Aphrodites. The head, ofwhich we have more and better copies, shows thedelicate oval characteristic of Attic art. The hair,which frames the high… … HKALI OF AIHIIODITK. KAIF.MANN HKAl). AI-TKil ASTIKE DKNKMAKLKH. I., XI.1 To fnap. 157 PRAXITELES 157 smooth and elastic skin of the face ; it is this latterabove all that in the Petworth head shows the samewarmth and life that we noticed in the Hermes, andthat has led to its being claimed as an…
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