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Delphi (1920)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Richards, G. C. (George Chatterton), 1867-1951 · London : Gyldendal · leaf 274

An illustration from Delphi, 1920, leaf 274
view (fig. 124), its whole characterwill immediately strike the observer as Praxitelean. THE COLUMN OF THE DANCING WOMEN 259 We may thus discard the attribution of the work toCallimachus, or other combinations with Greek artists ofthe fifth century^ e.g. Paeonius^ the creator of the famousNike of… … Fig. 126.—Head of the Cnidian Aphrodite. possible^ because the Silphion pillar in question was namedin the work of Anaxandridas as having been among theworks of art plundered by the Phocians^ from which itfollows that it was of costly material^ gold, silver, or in anycase bron2;e.- Equally…

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