A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 232
fallen awayfrom their high traditions; they did nothing for the sake of art,but simply manufactured, as it were, copies and imitations ofGreek statues for their own use. Happily we have to be grate-ful for the fact, though we cannot honour the motive. Had itnot been for this bestowal of their… … Fig. 114.—The Faenesb Heecules. Colossal. Grechetto Marble. Heiyht, 12 ft. Naples Museum. (Described in Examples.) EOMAN SCULPTORS REAL INVENTORS. 209 Christian writers of the Church, or the poetic allusions of theGreek Anthologists and the Latin Epigrammatists. In architectonic sculpture, as well…
Sculpture, Ancient
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