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d our attention. The Marsyas, too, as properlyconceived, is an immensely subtle study of action and emotionmuch more than of the human figure merely as such. There issomething of almost mercurial alertness in this apelike creaturetrembling between cupidity and fear. An attempt was made in an… … Fig. 80. — Dancing Satyr (Marsyas). Lateran Museum, Rome. Art and the Scientists made every Greek a connoisseur of the nude figure as the train!specialist of to-day can hardly claim to be. But by the sametoken the Greek was trained to appreciate action as well asfigure. He was as sensitive to the…
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