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The palaces of Crete and their builders (1907)

Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910 · London, Unwin · leaf 277

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that, as the golden masks of Mycens prove, no one wasnow able to make anything better. The same faults appear in theanimals painted on the larnakes ; they have an infantile appear-ance, and their species can only be recognised with difficulty. Such was the evolution of art from its infancy to… … FIG. 130.—TERRACOTTA ANIMALS OF THE PERIOD OF DECADENXE IN MYCEN^AN ART. CHAPTER XIV WOMAN IN THE ANCIENT RELIGIONSI. DURING the excavations at Phasstos I found in theNeolithic stratum a female image of hard unbakedclay (reproduced in Pig. 131, i centimetre taller than theactual size). Above the…

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