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... classical , more sculpture survives in the form of Roman copies . With the decline of vase - painting as a major art after the 5th century we lose close contact with developments in Greek painting , for little survives except through ...
... classical , more sculpture survives in the form of Roman copies . With the decline of vase - painting as a major art after the 5th century we lose close contact with developments in Greek painting , for little survives except through ...
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... Classical period . Larger works were hollow - cast by the cire perdue pro- cess , their eyes added in glass and eyelashes in silver . The Delphi Charioteer is an outstanding ... Classical Greek art is its unity of CLASSICAL GREEK ART 141.
... Classical period . Larger works were hollow - cast by the cire perdue pro- cess , their eyes added in glass and eyelashes in silver . The Delphi Charioteer is an outstanding ... Classical Greek art is its unity of CLASSICAL GREEK ART 141.
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... Classical Greek literature at a level well above the " popular " language of Homer . Such aristocrats could , like Photius , write in an arti- ficial " Classical " style , and could appreciate the ekphrasis , the rhetorical convention ...
... Classical Greek literature at a level well above the " popular " language of Homer . Such aristocrats could , like Photius , write in an arti- ficial " Classical " style , and could appreciate the ekphrasis , the rhetorical convention ...
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