The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 400
glance, but there is nothing terrible in the face.The lovely winged head, which originally belonged to a full-length statue of Hypnos (Sleep), is one of the most strikingbronzes in the British Museum. |J It is clearly related to theperiod which produced that figure of Death, the brother ofSleep, on… … Atubnm Plate 72. THE ■• I.UDOVISI ARKS(See p. 220) [/>. 220 THE FOURTH CENTURY often imitated with the application of acids by modern bronze-workers. But the Herculaneum bronzes, which had been pre-served for eighteen centuries in an airproof casing of lava, areto-day in much the same condition…
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