Pottery and procelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 52
POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. 44 have lost the extreme elongation of the earlier school. The limbs are fuller and thicker, the faces noble, the hair of the head and beard treated with greater breadth and mass, as in the style of the painter Zeuxis, who gave more flesh to his figures, in order to make them… … Yig. 40.— Krater {Vase Campanienne), from the Louvre. Homer, who represents even his females of large proportions. Th great charm of these designs is the beauty of the composition and tl more perfect proportion of the figures. The head is oval, three-quartei of which are comprised from the chin to…
Pottery
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