Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 294
Vatican,be studied in the Museum at Nottingham, have shownthat it is possible to revitalise the old conventions, andto produce works at once classical in treatment andmodern in truth and intensity of feeling. The fashion-able picturesque sculpture of the present day is largelycontrolled by the… … Fig. 27.—Athleteusing the strigil(Apoxyomenos) 276 The Conventions of Sculpture part hi and recognised that the extreme plasticity of the materialforced as it were on the artist a free and varied handling.Such works were then fired and became terra cotta,1 stillpreserving that accordance between…
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