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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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VENUS OF A ROMAN PERIOD. 138 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. According to Flaxman, the Venus de Medici is a deteriorated varietyor repetition of a Venus of Praxiteles. Even in this age, the tastefor Etruscan art still retained its influence, as the colossus of Apollo,
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in bronze, of excellent workmanship, placed in the library of thetemple of Augustus, was an Etruscan work. Under Tiberius andClaudius a limit was placed to the right of having statues exposedin public ; consequently a lesser number of statues were made, andless attention was paid to the perfection of the portrait. However, SCULPTURE. 139 some excellent works were produced in this period. The stylebecame purer and more refined under Adrian, for a partial revival ofGreek art is attributed to this emperor. The hair was carefullyworked, the eyebrows were raised, the pupils were indicated by adeep cavity—an essential characteristic of this age, rare before thisperiod, and frequently introduced afterwards; the heads acquiredgreater strength, without, however, increasing in character. Underthe Antonines, the decay of art was still more manifest, displayinga want of simplicity, and an attention to trivial and meretricious

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