Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 201
HELLENISTIC PERIOD 163 with a scene of Aphrodite fishing, with Eros aiding her. The landscape is suggested by the rocks on which the god- dess is seated, the palm tree between her and Eros, and the flowering plants. The drawing is graceful and lifelike. This is undoubtedly earlier than the other… … FIG. 103. TERRACOTTA STATUETTES ASIATIC TYPES cuted by a Greek artist, was certainly directly inspired by a Greek original. Inscriptions are much rarer on these mirrors than in the earlier Etruscan ones; and they are sometimes in Latin, which was the language current at Praeneste. This is the case…
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