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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria (1884)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 111

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d to the Greek Hercules, theyhad recourse to all the frankness of nudity. How was it thatunder such conditions they never succeeded in endowing theirgoddesses with grace, or their gods with nobility of form ? Canit be denied that the few nude figures they have left us arefar inferior, not only to…

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