History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 335
l of baked clay. Two-thirds of actual size. sorely puzzled as to his identity, but for the function which he fulfils (Fig. 398). A knife-haft from Menidi shows us perhaps the best specimen of dog-portraiture (Fig. 403). We confess to being surprised to find a pair of animals face to face on a gold… … Fig. 406. — Gold griffin from Tomb II. The Mycenian artist seems to have had feeble leanings towards winged creatures. We have seen doves hovering around small temple models wherein we have recognized chapels of Aphrodite (Figs. 111, 288, 289). Again, doves are held in the hand of two women figured…
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