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Six Greek sculptors (1910)

Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 152

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f the pedestalupon which it stood. We possess, however, a goodmany more or less direct copies from the statue, thoughit unfortunately happens that their artistic merit isalmost exactly in inverse proportion to their fidelity tothe original from which they are derived. They do notreally give us much… … <-MALL liHr UF ATH];X\ IAI; TIIKXyS, J\ .MADRID Jofilri: p. 9U PHIDIAS 91 to imagine what the original must have been like, evenif they preserve us very little of its artistic character. The goddess was represented standing, a figure ofVictory on her extended right hand, her left hand rest-ing…

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