Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York [The Gilliss Press] · leaf 93
d ornament.The skill displayed in the modelling leadsto the suspicion that the archaism is atleast partly an affectation, sought con-sciously for the effect of style which itgives. The minute care with which the lines of the hair, beard, and wingsare engraved is worthy of note. It is probably an… … 67 ARCHAIC PERIOD Babelon et J.-A. Blanchet, Catalogue des Bronzes antiques de la Biblio-theque Nationale, No. 417. Helbig, op. cit., thinks that these ornamentswere attached to helmets, since a helmet, found in the Marches and nowin the Museo Etruscoin Florence, shows some ornaments of not…
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