Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 674
tic of hisstyle was grace (charis), a quality which he himself avowed aspeculiarly his, and which serves to unite all the other gifts andfaculties which the painter requires; perhaps in none of hispictures was it exhibited in such perfection as in his famousAnadyomene, in which Aphrodite is… … RENOWNED PAINTERS. 657 ander, by whom he was warmly patronized. He not only repre-sented Alexander with the thunderbolt in his hand, but he evenattempted, as the master in light and shade, to paint thunder-storms, probably at the same time as natural scenes and mytho-logical personifications. The…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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