The Quarterly Review, Volumen180William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1895 |
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... Discobolus , and very properly endorses the current opinion that the Massimi statue in Rome is by far the finest of these copies . That this statue owes its superior attractiveness to the greater fidelity with which it reproduces in ...
... Discobolus , and very properly endorses the current opinion that the Massimi statue in Rome is by far the finest of these copies . That this statue owes its superior attractiveness to the greater fidelity with which it reproduces in ...
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... Discobolus , but the whole of its bodily forms , back into the true age of Myron . For the rendering of the hair he would perhaps have to go a little farther back , so as to meet the reproach of Pliny . Myron had not in respect of the ...
... Discobolus , but the whole of its bodily forms , back into the true age of Myron . For the rendering of the hair he would perhaps have to go a little farther back , so as to meet the reproach of Pliny . Myron had not in respect of the ...
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... Discobolus , which of course is itself still a somewhat unknown quantity . But this artistic advance , he says , is only a proof that the Marsyas was a late work of the sculptor's . That is perfectly plausible . It would be more than ...
... Discobolus , which of course is itself still a somewhat unknown quantity . But this artistic advance , he says , is only a proof that the Marsyas was a late work of the sculptor's . That is perfectly plausible . It would be more than ...
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... Discobolus . But what confidence can we repose in a copyist of whom that can be said by an apologist ? How can numerosior in arte quam Polycletus et in symme- tria diligentior , ' - phrases so applicable to the Discobolus , apply to ...
... Discobolus . But what confidence can we repose in a copyist of whom that can be said by an apologist ? How can numerosior in arte quam Polycletus et in symme- tria diligentior , ' - phrases so applicable to the Discobolus , apply to ...
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... Discobolus , and there we end . For our present purpose , these two instances , selected from many others even in the chapter now before us , will suffice to show that the additions and modifications of copyists have no terror for our ...
... Discobolus , and there we end . For our present purpose , these two instances , selected from many others even in the chapter now before us , will suffice to show that the additions and modifications of copyists have no terror for our ...
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