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blic who felt his influence, while affectation wouldadd its momentum to the ruling passion. It became impossiblefor the Athenians to conceive of the highest beauty untingedby reverie and sentiment. Even if Praxiteles had not been in temperamental sympathywith this tendency he could hardly have… … Fig. 86. — Satyr ( Marble Faun ). Capitoline Museum, Rome. 224 The Message of Greek Art time, and in the Hermes he reveals the spirit of Athens as trans-figured by Socrates and Plato. Of the many other recorded works of Praxiteles our knowl-edge is much less satisfactory. Several of them are easily…
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