Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 155
ught after rather than the sublime.Praxiteles may be considered the first sculptor who introduced thismore sensual, if it may be so called, style of art; for he was thefirst who, in the unrobed Aphrodite, combined the utmost luxurianceof personal charms with a spiritual expression in which the… … CUPID OF PKAXTTELES. tributed to advance this style by the peculiar fulness, roundness,and harmonious general effect, by which it appears that his workswere characterized. The following are some of the more particular characteristicsof the human form, adopted by the Grecian sculptors of this In the…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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