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The message of greek art (1915)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 116

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de us familiar. Thedraperies are no longer caught up in the left hand, but fallstraight downward in few and simple folds. There are noruffles or traces of embroidered patterns. The arrangement ofthe hair is the simplest imaginable, free alike from carelessnessand elaboration. The attitudes are… … Fig. 32. — Heracles and Atlas. Metope from Temple of Zeus,Museum, Olympia. ioo The Message of Greek Art line, as it were, but they are undisguised by accidents and ele-gant irrelevancies. The difference between these two periodsis the widest possible. The one period is elegant, fussy, man-nered and…

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