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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 265

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THE POLYCLETAN SCHOOL 239 and it is remarkable how greatly the expression is thereby altered and improved. The type recalls several works in which we should like to recognise the creations of a particular school, and we should be inclined to … after another work of Polycletus, his Amazon (comp. p. 13), stands in the centre near the table. Better heads of the Doryphoros (see p. 10) and the Diadumenos are placed on the low base in the centre of the Second Room on the right (the rendering of the Doryphoros is very effeminate). We see here…

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