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... ( Museo Capitolino , Rome ) with its mastery of light and shade on the metal vessel and the reflection of the birds in the water , and his Unswept Floor , with its minute attention to details and skillful shading ( Lat- eran Museum , Rome ) ...
... ( Museo Capitolino , Rome ) with its mastery of light and shade on the metal vessel and the reflection of the birds in the water , and his Unswept Floor , with its minute attention to details and skillful shading ( Lat- eran Museum , Rome ) ...
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... ( Museo Archeologico , Chiusi ; Museo Archeologico , Bolog- na ) . Their style is lively , their design simple , and they often depict aspects of ordinary life . The severe style of early Greek Classical sculpture was not so fully ...
... ( Museo Archeologico , Chiusi ; Museo Archeologico , Bolog- na ) . Their style is lively , their design simple , and they often depict aspects of ordinary life . The severe style of early Greek Classical sculpture was not so fully ...
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... ( Museo Archeologico , Naples ) based on a painting by Philoxenos of Eretria ( fl . end of 4th century BC ) or in that of a winged Dionysos seated upon the back of a snarling tiger , an emblema in the House of Dionysos , Delos . One of ...
... ( Museo Archeologico , Naples ) based on a painting by Philoxenos of Eretria ( fl . end of 4th century BC ) or in that of a winged Dionysos seated upon the back of a snarling tiger , an emblema in the House of Dionysos , Delos . One of ...
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