Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 80
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART 58 CHAP. feature and limb is represented either in a fully frontal or in a completely profile aspect, a system of which I shall speak in more detail hereafter. But the subject is still more interesting ; … Fig. 5. — Spartan hero and his wife.1 these reliefs were no mere adornments of the tomb, but monu- ments of family worship, marking the place where the ghosts actually awaited the tribute of their descendants. In another class of reliefs also connected with the veneration of heroes, and found…
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