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Renaissance and modern art (1894)

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa. : Flood and Vincent · leaf 263

An illustration from Renaissance and modern art, 1894, leaf 263
eighteenth century. Only in quite recent yearshas it begun to shakeoff the imitative qualitywhich the Greek Re-vival had stamped uponit. The reasons forthis are obvious. Thepre-eminence of theGreeks in sculpture isso unquestioned andthe fame of their worksso great, that all laterart must bow before… … Fig. 165.—Teucer, by Hamo Thornycroft. (See Fig. 169.) Photographed, by permission, for this work, at the Columbian Exposition. itation being the rage in general, the art in which theGreek was most admired experienced the result most 256 Sculpture in the Nineteenth Century. 257

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