Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 184
do the images of the Christian Apoca-lypse. The monstrous creations with many heads, arms, eyes, etc.,on one body, appear most unfavorably in the formative arts, andthe preparatory work of the poets, in Greece so serviceable, was inthis respect a positive disadvantage to Indian sculpture and… … Fig. 82.—Relief from the Tope of Amravati. 150 INDIA. appearing incapable of energetic movement. This impotence isnot relieved by the multiplication of the extremities, nor by thesprawling postures of the arms and legs, which rather appear to bedisjointed, or, at best, to be outstretched in a lazy…
Art, Medieval
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