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Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes (1915)

Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York [The Gilliss Press] · leaf 53

An illustration from Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes, 1915, leaf 53 — the body. Beneath each foot is a tang for in-sertion in a base. The execution is very primitive and recalls the earlyfigurines found at Olympia (cf. A. Furtwangler, Olympia,IV, Die Bronzen, pis. XV ff.) and elsewhere in the loweststrata. Compare also the primitive figures from Italy,Nos. 145-150,… … 2 STATUETTE OF A STAG, roughly butvigorously modelled in early style. Probably ninth or eighth century B.C. Com-pare the primitive figures of animals found atOlympia (A. Furtwangler, Olympia, IV, DieBronzen, pis. X ff.). Like them, this probablyserved as a votive offering. Height, 5rV in. (12.9…

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