Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple
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Reflexions on the Imitation of the both its nature and fize in a country, chofen, as Plato a fays, by Minerva, to be inhabited by the Greeks, as productive of every kind of genius. But this Taste was not only original among the Greeks, but feemed alfo quite peculiar to their country: it feldom went abroad without lofs, and was long ere it imparted its kind influences to more diftant climes. It was, doubtlefs, a ftranger to the northern zones, when Painting and Sculpture, thofe offsprings of Greece, were defpifed there to fuch a degree, that the mofl valuable pieces of Cor regio ferved only for blinds to the windows of the royal ftables at Stockholm. There is but one way for the moderns to become great, and perhaps unequalled 3I mean, by imitating the antients. And what we are told of Homer, that whoever underftands him well, admires him, we find no Jefs true in matters concerning the antienr, efpecially the Greek arts. But then we mufl a Plato in Timae .E dit. Francof. p. 1644.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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