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The museums and ruins of Rome (1912)

Amelung, Walther, 1865-1927, Holtzinger, Heinrich, 1856-, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London, Duckworth & Co · leaf 214

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i88 THE CAPITOLINE MUSEUM has been preserved (fig. loo). The peculiar beauty of this representation lies in the way the lower part of the body is wrapped in the effectively flung himation from the heavy mass of which the youthful body rises in wonderful contrast. The position of the right arm we… … her right hand on her spear, while the Fig. 101. — Gem, left raises an end of her dress to dry with Wounded the flowing blood ; her head droops Amazon, after Baumeister’s with an expression of quiet suffering. “ Denkmäler.” Here (fig. 102) we see the whole figure dominated by the theme of the wound…

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