Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 195
HELLENISTIC PERIOD subjects, and old people, children, and even caricatures were studied with new insight; also, a certain love of dis- play, the natural outcome of realism, began to assert itself. … this room. FIG, 99. BRONZE STATUETTE The head of a young girl APHRODITE in Case M shows the influ- ence of the works of Praxiteles both in conception and in execution. It is full of gentleness and charm, and the sur- face has a beautiful evanescent effect. There is, however, a lack of definition…
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