Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 259
GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURES 22 1 adult than a child. The inability to represent children is general in Greek sculpture of this and the preceding periods. It was not until the Hellenistic age that children were properly studied and represented in a lifelike manner. A stele of similar type, but with… … sion with which the boy looks 134. GRAVESTONE OF FIG. up at his master. The cor- AN ATHLETE nice of the stele is decorated IV CENTURY B.C. at each angle with a sphinx, and in the center with a mourning Siren, beating her breast with one hand and tearing her hair with the other. The workmanship,…
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