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The message of greek art (1915)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 105

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their color-ing of which abundant traces remain. Great changes havetaken place since the days of the blue-bearded Typhon, to saynothing of that earlier time when the painter painted in eyesand other details which the sculptor felt unable to carve. Thesculptor has quite graduated from this early… … Fig. 27.— Female Figure. Acropolis Museum, Athens. Art and the Tyrants 89 taken the place of coarse colors, and antagonistic elements seemalmost reconciled. Each part, face, hair, eyes, garments, isdistinguished by its particular tint, but — be it carefully noted— not by a realistic or natural…

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