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An Exhibition of Antique Sculpture, Vases, Bronzes, &C., &C: Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Italian, From the Hope, Peel, Kennedy, Clephan, Hilton Price, and Other Collections (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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Excerpt from An Exhibition of Antique Sculpture, Vases, Bronzes, &C., &C: Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Italian, From the Hope, Peel, Kennedy, Clephan, Hilton Price, and Other Collections
Taking our stand by Furtwangler's pronouncements on the chief l'raxitelean statues, we may safely assume that the Peel torso belongs to the artist's maturity, when he had broken away from the influence of l'olykleitos and had attained that intimate mastery of the secrets of marble tech nique which is so conspicuous in the Hermes. The quiet, vertical, unbroken planes which we associate with the work of l'olykleitos and the earlier statuesattributed to l'raxiteles, such as the Dresden Satyr and the l'alatine liros in the Louvre, have given place in the present work to the elusive subtlety of nature itself, a wealth of soft indula tions, which, as has been well remarked of the Hermes.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 0260264245
- ISBN 13 9780260264244
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages48
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