Ancient art and its remains
Subtitle: or, a manual of the archaeology of art
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 25, 2007
Place of publication: Whitefish, Montana
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9780548052785
Copyright date: 1847
Subjects: History - Ancient & Classical; Art / History / Ancient & Classical; Art & Art Instruction
First sentence: 40. Of all the branches of the Indo-Germanic race, the Greeks were that in which sensible and spiritual, internal and external life were found in the finest equipoise; hence they appear to have been from the first most peculiarly fitted for the independent cultivation of artistic forms, although it required a long process of development and many favourable circumstances before this feeling for art, which showed its activity so early in poetry an mythology, could also transferred to external matters and ripen into sculpture.
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