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Six Greek sculptors (1915)

Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 391

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of thefigures suggests the melee of battle, even though itbreaks up into the usual series of pairs of combatants.We find a marked contrast to the slabs of the Mauso-leum frieze, where every figure stands out clearly definedagainst its own bit of background, and the action, how-ever violent, is… … HEAD OF PERSIAN ; DETAIL FROM HAMDY-BEY AND REINACH, OP. CIT., PL. XXXII To face p. 229 LYSIPPUS 229 the faces that is remarkable, and it is greatly increasedby the fortunate circumstance that the original colour-ing is, in many cases, well preserved. We see the effectof this addition of colour in…

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