Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 285
st probably be assigned toPraxiteles; and in his figures of the Muses, seatedor standing in graceful poses and varied arrangementsof drapery, we see a set of figures that may well have m served as prototypes to many of the Tanagra statuettes.It is not, however, in terra-cottas only that… … ffl P M «^ H M . 4£ fto J * Q) — *■* °/^ 8 ^ £ si ol El o > ft 3 PS<5 PRAXITELES 173 even into Graeco-Roman art, in no case more readilythan in these draped figures. We do not knowwhether Praxiteles was the first to adapt them to therepresentation of the nine Muses ; it is probable thathe may…
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