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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 158

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from Naxosis a favourite subject, but the figures of his thiasos, of Sileni, Satyrs, Bacchants,appear of course in all possible forms, situations, and predicaments, sensual andburlesque as well as occasionally more serious. Of the secondary deities,according to the same spirit, Selene and Endymion,… … Fig- 35- a temple of her own at Pompeii, and lu r worship had strongly impressed the imagination of the time. The same considerations which determined this school in its choice amongthe myths Of the gods, held good also as to the tales of the hemes. Iioin theClpic cycle, scarcely any pictures occur…

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