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etic character of the Greeksand accounts for the supremacy of their art. Even the veryunconventional Mr. Ruskin lends his support to this conven-tional dictum of the modern studio. It is not a challenge of the supremacy of the Greek to say thatall such explanations are fallacious and that… … Fig. 33. — Apollo of Orchomenos. National Museum, Athens. Art and Democracy 103 rect representation of any such object a high achievement inart. All such arguments prove too much. If the human bodyis so intrinsically beautiful, why did the Greeks admire a nudeApollo and shudder at a nude Aphrodite?…
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