Painters and sculptors : a second series of Old masters and new (1907)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York : Duffield · leaf 320
of his Clytemnestra, as she watches from the battlementsof Argos for the beacon fires which shall announcethe return of her husband; a grand figure, titanic inbulk but nobly severe in line, a very embodiment ofthe spirit of antique tragedy. Look at the full-blown, gracious ripeness, languorous and… … LEIGHTOX: THIS BATH OF PSYCHE LORD LEIGHTON 163 delicate slenderness of the Psyche, her flower-likebody gleaming between the marble columns andreflected in the limpid element below. The creator ofsuch figures as these, and of many others only lessbeautiful, is a great artist—an artist of power,…
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