History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 116
s of young men engaged in athletic exercises. A re-markable disk adorned with the same subject, found in Sicily and now in theBritish Museum, has lately been made extremely well known (Fig. 19). In thisexample we find on the one side a youth with the halteres, or weights used injumping, and on the… … Fig. 19. quite lately become acquainted with a special but not numerous class ofmirrors, found for the most part in Corinth, and engraved with designs of acharacter genuinely and unmistakably Greek. The earliest known of theserepresents two veiled women; on the second appears the genius of…
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