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he same as drawing with a fine brush on a terra-cottavase. In each case success depends entirely on beauty of line. Is it not,therefore, strange that the Etruscans, who had shrunk from the attempt GREEK BRONZES 31 at vase-painting, should have devoted themselves to an extraordinaryextent to the… … Fig. II.—Archaic Etruscan Statuette. British Museum. and a much more difficult thing to accommodate a drawing to a surfacewhich curves both vertically and horizontally, as is the case with many ofthe Greek vases. Very probably it was to escape this difficulty that theEtruscans abandoned the…
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