The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 40
sent a systematic exaggeration ofthose qualities of strength and powerwhich Chalda;an sculpture drew di-rectly from nature. To get some idea of the character-istics of this art, realistic and almostbrutal, yet refined by its striving afterexpressive modelling, we have but tostudy one of the statues… … FIG. 26.—HEAD. Discovered at Tello, Babylon.(The Louvre.) his knees is a rule, the length of theBabylonian foot (about loj inches),subdivided into sixteen equal parts.The modelling of the arm and of thefoot sufficiently indicate the tendenciesof Chaldaean art; we find nothing akinto it in Egypt,…
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