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Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
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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EARLY STATUE. blocks, the head, arms, and legs scarcety defined. Some of thesewooden blocks are supposed to have been, in a coarse attempt atimitation, furnished with real hair, and to have been clothed withreal draperies in order to conceal the imperfection of the form. Thenext step was to give these shapeless blocks a human form. Theupper part assumed the likeness of a head, and by degrees arms andlegs were marked out, but in these early imitations of the humanfigure the arms were, doubtless, represented closely attached to thesides; and the legs, though to a certain extent defined, were stillconnected and united in a common pillar. SCULPTURE. 125 The age of Daedalus marks an improvement in the moulding ofthe human figure, and in giving it life and action. This improve-ment in the arts consisted in representing the human figure withthe arms isolated from the body, the legs detached, and the eyesopen; in fine, giving it an appearance of nature as well as of life,
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and thus introducing a principle of imitation. Ihis importantprogress in the practice of the art is the characteristic feature of theschool of Daedalus, for under the name of Daedalus we must under-stand a school of artists, probably Athenians, who practised theirart in this style. According to Flaxman, the rude efforts of this 126 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. age were intended to represent divinities and heroes only—Jupiter,Neptune, Hercules, and several heroic characters had the self-sameface, figure, and action; the same narrow eyes, thin^lips, with the

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