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A manual of Greek archaeology (1886)

Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 94

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s purity. The laws of polychromy can be rigorously estab-lished only after a minute study of all the data, whichseems not yet to have been made. It can at least besaid at present that in all points it was in perfectharmony with Greek genius. This system, so con-trary to our modern tastes and to our… … to 82 GREEK ARCHEOLOGY. divisions between the arts, teaches us once more towhat an extent, in the soul of the Greek, the mostdiverse arts could be made to unite for a commonobject. We can, furthermore, but imperfectly under-stand Greek polychromy, if we fail to remember the^conditions of climate…

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