he marble from Thasos.pos.sesses very- charming qualities in grace andfineness of execution. The delicacy of the face,the graceful, clean-cut profile, the harmony thatpervades ever\- detail and conveys such an im-pression of finished art, makes this an interestingspecimen of Grecian sculpture in… … SILAXION—HEAD OF POETESS terpiece, because in the greater num-ber of tv^pes of Aphrodite and otherfemale characters, the hair-dressingis entirely different from that ofthe head in the Canessa collection.This style of dressing the hair isfound rarely elsewhere in the Atticbas-reliefs, but very…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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