Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London, Duckworth and co. · leaf 83
ention underwhich the jEginetan masters had been content towork. Without Olympia, the wonderful advance fromiEgina to the Parthenon would be unintellisible; butat Olympia we see at least an aspiration towards thepower and majesty of design which was to be fulfilled inthe work of Phidias. It is not,… … HEAD OF WAKRIOK, IHOIlAlil.Y EGINETAN, FKOll THE ACROPOLISAT ATHENS Tojaap. 47 EARLY MASTERPIECES 47 great sculptors of Greece were not always or evenusually employed upon such works ; it was indeed infree statues that they had most scope for the exercise oftheir individuality; and in the case of…
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