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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 68

An illustration from Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes, 1915, leaf 68
entations on the chariot are all stock subjectsof archaic Greek art, for which man) parallels can be found on black-figured Athenian vases and other monuments. A natural explanation, 20 ARCHAIC PKRIOD therefore, seems to be that the Etruscan artist chose three familiar scenesof warlike character as… … 40 for by rather far-fetched means, become purely decorative motives in-troduced fo fill up the space, as we find them on Greek vases of the period.The subject represented in the central panel, a warrior receiving his armorfrom a woman, is familiar from Greek vase-paintings (see e.g.…

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