Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 191
PORTRAIT SCULPTURE 169 XI the surface, and makes conformity to obvious fact more at- tractive to us than conformity to underlying idea and character. The Greeks were free from such temptations; their portraits are largely based on memory, and in the case of poets certainly modified by the character… … Fig. 43. — Head and hand holding discus : Athens. the fifth century, portraits can scarcely be said to have existed ; at least it is impossible to distinguish them from the sculptural types of which they were modifications. In such statues as those of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, of which we have…
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