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Daedalus, or, The causes and principles of the excellence of Greek sculpture (1860)

Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts · leaf 299

An illustration from Daedalus, or, The causes and principles of the excellence of Greek sculpture, 1860, leaf 299 — 229 DECORUM. danced away your marriage. 5,1 That man was es¬ teemed awkward and ill-bred, whose action did not correspond with the music to which he danced. Milizia says that only two instances are known of figures being represented sitting with their legs crossed. But here we have a female raising… … be evident to any one who tries it, and at the same time keeps the other foot on the narrow ledge be¬ neath. Instead of a soft undulating outline, we have nothing but sharp angles, — the bent knee, the bent elbow, the bent wrist, the turned head, the sharp 1 Herod, vi. 129 : Athen. xiv. 25. The…

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