Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 180
trained attitude and the con-fused folds of her robe clearly indicate that she has restlesslychanged her position, visited by dreams prophetic of hercoming distress. Various defects in the execution preventus from regarding this figure as a genuine original. Thesculptor has failed to distinguish… … THE SLEEPING ARIADNE I3I and even probable that the indistinctness of the plasticwork was rectified by the original painting of the figure.On the other hand it would be difficult to discover anysuch excuse for the treatment of the face, which, as Winck-elmann pointed out, is somewhat one-sided. How…
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