Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... covered by bronze helmet. Compare this head with head of Eperastos or Phormis (No. 63). Friederichs-Wolters, 315. Arch. Zeit. xxxix. p. 75 (Treu). 53. Seated Athene. Found on the Acropolis, Athens: now in the Acropolis Museum, ibid. Early Attic. Perhaps the work of Endoios (see Pausanias L 26. 5; and Jahn, de Antiquissimis Minervae Simulacris, Bonn, 1866). This statue, rude though it be, is illustrative of the comparatively great freedom of early Attic art. In contradistinction to the seated Branchidae figures and No. 7, a fairly successful attempt is made to indicate the varying texture of drapery &c., cf. the clinging quality of drapery (e.g. lower part of r. leg and ankle). Overbeck, G. d. Gr. PI. i. fig. 24. Murray, H. Gr. Sc. Vol. i. p. 179. Mitchell, H. A. S. p. 214. 54. Head of Youth, Marble. Three quarter life. Purchased for Museum of Berlin at Trieste. Archaic. (? North Grecian, according to Brunn.) Mittheil. A. I. Athen, vm. p. 91, PI. vi. 55. Bearded Head, Marble. Archaic. Discovered 1876 on south slope of Acropolis. Athens. A narrow fillet in the hair. Friederichs-Wolters, 105. Von Sybel, Kat. d. Sculpt. z. Athen, No. 4151, p. 302. 56. Head of Athene, over life-size. Marble. Found in 1863 on the Acropolis, Athens; now at Athens. A helmet surmounted the head as it now appears. Early Attic School. Somewhat similar in style to the heads of Athene discovered on Acropolis in 1886. Friederichs-Wolters, 106. Von Sybel, 5004. Mitchell, H. A. S. p. 214. 57. Head of Artemis. Marble. Period of Transition. Found at Delos by the French, 1878; now at Myconos. Hull. de Can. Hell. (Homolle), 1879, PI. vm. 68. Head in Relief. Marble, Archaic. Found by J. T. Wood at Ephesus; now in the British Museum. Murray, H. G. S. i. p. 111. "-59. Winged...
