Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 150
ark, and is rarely worked inrelief, but, in the latter case, so as to imitate a false beard, and conse-quently in the same system as the hair. The costume partakes ofthe same conventional and hieratic taste ; it consists of drapery, withstraight and regular folds, falling in symmetrical and… … FRIEZE FROM THE THESEOI. an imitation of the early statues in wood, the first objects of worshipand of art among the Greeks, which were frequently covered withfalse hair, and clothed with real draperies. The muscular develop-ment observable in these figures is somewhat exaggerated, but, SCULPTURE.…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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