Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903, Redford, George, d. 1895 · Meadville, Penna. : Flood and Vincent : Chautauqua-Century Press · leaf 88
ze oflife. The heads are particularly significant of the art of thetime, carved with artistic skill, but all of one type, and havingno other expression than the same complacent smile. Whetherattacking to the death or whether in the last agony, there isthe same smile. This was so probably because… … Fig. 99.—Metope ; from; the Temple of Theseus. 29 inches high. perhaps even approaches to dryness? Still, it was not theportrayal of beauty that was the aim, but a forcible representa-tion of a scene of historic intej-est with all the accentuationand emphasis that exact imitation could give without…
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