Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 265
great, that all laterart must bow before it.When the influences ofliterary fashion andhistoric interest wereadded to the weight ofthe technical superi-ority and artistic value,the inevitable result, for Fig. 165.—Teucer, by Hamo Thornvcroft. (See , . , . Fig. 169.) Photographed, by permission, for… … Sculpture in the Nineteenth Century. 257 sensibly. Thus, to the period of Thorwaldsen, the im-itation of Greek sculpture appeared to be a necessaryconsequence of its admitted superiority. The moderncopyists overlooked, however, the point that the Greekshad not reached theirgreatness in sculptureby…
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