Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval (1843)
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842 · London : M. A. Nattali · leaf 226
CHAPTER YII. Scitlpturc.—EyyjttUiii.—Etnisant.—Greek. What Sir Isaac Newton is in Astro-nomy, Winckelman is in Sculpture.We liaAe, therefore, an oracle, uponwhose decisions we may implicitlyrely, without any impeachment of tasteor judgment. The first Statues were stones andblocks without form. It…
Classical antiquities · Civilization, Medieval
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