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The principles of Greek art (1914)

Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 134

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112 PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART CHAP. golden colossus of Zeus of the same fabric was preserved at Olympia. The fabric may be studied in a bronze figure from a tomb at Polledrara, preserved in the British Museum (Fig. 21). The second method of working was casting the parts of a statue in separate moulds… … Fig. 21. — Figure from Polledrara. Fig. 20. — From Olympia. duced by the Samian artists, Rhoecus and Theodorus, who lived in the days of Croesus and Polycrates. A fine kylix at Berlin 1 gives a representation of this kind of work (Fig. 21) : a sculp- tor's workshop is shown, in which colossal…

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