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Delphi (1920)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Richards, G. C. (George Chatterton), 1867-1951 · London : Gyldendal · leaf 323

An illustration from Delphi, 1920, leaf 323
ls of the two earliestnaturalistic portraits inGreek art, Thucydides andEuripides. But just as one rests in the conviction that at leastthe outward features of these two great personalities are pre-served in life-like reproduction, one notices that the portraitof Euripides, besides the most widely… … Fig. 152.—Aeschylus (Ny CarlsbergGlyptotek). > Diels, op. cit., 442, fr. 195. Bernoulli, Griech. Jkonogr., i, 180. GREEK PORTRAITS FROM DELPHI 309 is proved by the quotation carved on the breast of the herm,and by several rephcas. The head is broader and fuller^the beard stronger and wilder, the…

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