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 74
AN CIVILIZATION scenes are depicted. It is just possible, too, that the Vaphiocups may represent a scene of bull-grappling {TavpoKaQwina)by athletes. The Minoan ladies are pictured (as we find also in Egyptianart and on early Greek vases) with a skin of chalky white-ness. They are dressed in the… … 17. ACROBAlS AND ELANDS (?) incredible wasp-waists. Such figures are found both in colourand also incised on seals (see Figs. 7 and 28). Besides frescoes there were found figures and other objectsin terra-cotta, faience, ivory, and other material, and brightlycoloured reliefs in plaster, one of…
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