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Six Greek sculptors (1910)

Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 171

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attributed to the same sculptor.There is, indeed, a certain uniformity of style through-out which shows that Phidias had by this time traineda staff of assistants fit to carry out his designs; butsome of them do this with a vigour of touch, a certaintyand boldness of work worthy of the master… … PHIDIAS 103 is one of the best preserved pieces of the whole. Aninstance of the more spontaneous work is to be seen inthe heads of the chariot-horses reproduced in PI. XXV,It is of this piece that Mr. Ruskin wrote, in his Aratra Pentelici: The projection of the fourhorses, one behind the other, is…

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