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Manual of Ancient Sculpture

Name: Manual of Ancient Sculpture
Author: Pierre Paris
ISBN: 9781130784299

by Pierre Paris

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...are in profile, in the well-known attitude. The Gorgon kneels in an effort to run, like the winged Artemis of Delos. The hair of the Kerkopes falls to the right and left of their heads (they are suspended by the feet) in a triple string of beads, like the hair of the Moschophoros. The Athena who is aiding Perseus has exactly the same coiffure as the Apollo of Tenea, and the tunic falls in regular folds like the draperies of the statues of Delos or the Acropolis. In conclusion, resemblances have long been noticed between these famous metopes and some monuments like them of Dorian work. On a curious stele found in the neighbourhood of Sparta, now in the Sparta Museum, Orestes is slaying Klytemnestra with the same action with which Perseus beheads the Gorgon. III. KANACHOS--THE PEDIMENTS OF AZGINA--ANTENOR. For Antenor, E. Gardner, Archaeological Report for 1888, 1889, in J. H. S., 1889, where certain points in Studniczka's argument are criticized. St-a&mczka, J ahrbuch, ii., 1887, p. 135, taf. 10. There is, as a rule, a transition stage, sometimes slow and painful, between the naive works of primitive times and the perfect achievements of classic masters, a stage attractive only to the curiosity of the savant. It is to some minds like the tiresome, long-drawn pages of a story which few care to read. In Greece, this period is short, but full of instruction and interest. No other people ever passed so quickly from the groping uncertainty of infancy to the assurance of ripe age. It would seem difficult, at first, to say how many years separated the workers who blocked out the xoanon of Nicandre and those sculptors who so lovingly plaited the tunics of the archaic statues of the Acropolis. But there is certainly less than a century between the latter and Phid...