Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 203
rcury. do not pretend to the noble and proud look of Apollo, but with broader and flatter forms, have still some-thing uncommonly fine and graceful. Winkelman remarks : ThejTouth which is so beautiful in Apollo, advances to mature years inother youthful gods, and becomes manly in Mercury and… … 180 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. first, a class in which the Hermes ideal evidently soared to itshighest point: figures of ripened youth, and full of solid strength, theexpression of whose countenance melts into a gentle smile, in firmtranquil posture, the chlamys thrown back from the beautifully…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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