Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London, Duckworth and co. · leaf 293
must probably be assigned toPraxiteles; and in his figures of the Muses, seatedor standing in graceful poses and varied arrangementsof drapery, we see a set of figures that may well haveserved as prototypes to many of the Tanagra statuettes.It is not, however, in terra-cottas only that… … PRAXITELES 173 even into Grasco-Roman art, in no case more readilythan in these draped figures. We do not knowwhether Praxiteles was the first to adapt them to therepresentation of the nine Muses ; it is probable thathe may here be following his father or elder brotherCephisodotus, who made a…
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