Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 111
fabrics, with different tech- niques and styles. By the second half of the sixth cen- FIG. 43. MARBLE tury a change began to take TEMPLE LAMP place. Local fabrics in the different parts of the Greek world gradually disappeared, and Athenian ware took their place. This wide distribu- tion of the… … the present time is due to FIG. 44. AMBER GROUP various causes. First of all, the shapes show a beauty of li^e and proportion and a refinement of detail which place them in the front rank of artistic pottery; for the forms, which up to the sixth century had been of great variety, now became…
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