Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 159
inhaving a more arched forehead, a nose moreaquiline, and features altogether of a moredecided character. Under Augustus, and thefollowing Eoman emperors, to meet the de-mand for Greek statues, to embellish their houses and villas, severalcopies and imitations of celebrated Greek works were… … VENUS OF A ROMAN PERIOD. 138 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. According to Flaxman, the Venus de Medici is a deteriorated varietyor repetition of a Venus of Praxiteles. Even in this age, the tastefor Etruscan art still retained its influence, as the colossus of Apollo,
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