Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 296
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART 274 CHAP. Certainly to a modern mind the scene would have been more effectively rendered if Agamemnon had stood within his palace, and the cortege been represented as approaching it from the left. Why this line wTas not taken it is hard to say. We … Fig. 93. — Vase in British Museum. must not expect in our vase-painter too much originality or logical thoroughness. Professor Robert has pointed out 1 that in his representation of the tent of Achilles, the artist has admitted the influence of which I have already spoken as contamination. The…
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