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Greek bronzes (1898)

Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904 · London : Seeley and Co. ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 36

An illustration from Greek bronzes, 1898, leaf 36
eenbroken off. In his limbs andbodily forms there is a youth-ful sensitiveness which recalls the Greeks of the best days. But havinggot over this first impression, we cannot disguise the fact that his armsare in size out of all proportion, that the chlamys is fastened round hisneck with a studied… … Fig. 9.—Etruscan Heracles. British Museum. 28 GREEK BRONZES is much to be admired over and above the general attractions of the bronze.Yet after all there remains something essentially Etruscan in the figure,and that something is exaggeration. We have not yet considered what an ordinary draped…

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