Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 579
bined all the best quaUties of Atticgrace with the masculine vigour of the Argive school. He iscredited with many great works of which no known relic isextant except small and vague reproductions on coins. Possiblymany of the well-known but unauthenticated statues in ourgalleries may be derived… … ii8. The Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles 418 SPARTA AND THEBES Roman art, but they were too often spoilt by the falsesentiment and prettiness of the later sculptors. Scopas of Paros excelled in dramatic expression of strongemotion, which in his open-eyed and strenuous faces and figuresoffered a…
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