Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 166
greatest period;without them, we could never have inferred their finerqualities from any copies or imitations. The drapedfigures from the Parthenon pediments show the samebreadth and majesty of type that we may see in thenude male figures. The horses heads, too, show similarcharacteristics, both… … riGUKlO Fl;iU[ A\ IEIirJIKXT (.)!• TAISTJI KXUN T,:far. p. luo PHIDIAS loi pediment. The soft, quivering skin around the nostrilis so delicately rendered that it is difficult to realise, aswe look at it, that it is marble and not living flesh; yethere again the effect is gained with the utmost…
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