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Renaissance and modern art (1908)

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 266

An illustration from Renaissance and modern art, 1908, leaf 266
h andearly nineteenth cen-turies of the vigor andlife of original Greek art. The models followed had beenmainly those of the Roman period. It was not till theyear 1816 that the British government agreed to purchasethe Elgin Marbles, although they had then been in Londonfor nine years. After the… … Fig. 166.—Bronze Equestrian Statue of Frederickthe Great. By Rauch. Berlin (1851). 258 Re7iaissa7ice and Moderyi Art. we notice the deficiency of vigorous modeling peculiar tothe imitative Greek School, Canova and Thorwaldsen in-cluded. The lack of differentiation in execution betweendetails and…

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