A Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture : to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture (1905)
Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927, University Prints (Winchester, Mass.) · Boston, Bureau of University Travel · leaf 59
ehefsis found in the shape of the centaurs^enjoying the use of fourhorses^ legs, which is the regular fashion all through the classicperiod. Originally 3 centaurs were represented as men, withonly the bodies and hind legs of horses attached to the smallof their backs. One such primitive centaur, it… … ARCHAIC SCULPTURE, 37 found in Assos in the American excavations of 1881-1883,but this is of httle importance, for it is the most advanced,and not the conservative type, which is decisive for the dateof a rehef.^ The existence, however, of the two types sideby side is interesting; for although the…
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