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Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of their designsvanishes and gives way to the beautiful, so that they might beranked in the fourth class. The harshness and violence of move-ment so striking in the archaic vases gradually disappear, and makeway for a calm and severe dignity. The artists, however, did notyet work with perfect freedom, and the designs are rather stiff.The subjects represented are the same as those on the vases of thesecond class. The forms of the vases have something more elegantthan those of the second class, although they present great varia-tions in style and size. They occur most frequently in Etruria andat Nola; they contain inscriptions in characters of a middle kindbetween the archaic mode of writing and the later one. Theperiod commonly assigned to works of this class, is from B.C. 460to 420. The Beautiful, or Greeh.%—This style is the more perfect develop-ment of the former, all severity and conventionality which dis- * See Plate 1—II. t Named by Mr. Birch The btrong style. t See Plate 2.
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