Beacon Lights of History, Vol 3: Ancient Achievements by John Lord · Mentor New York
The Fine Arts, Part 3
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The carved horses on the Elgin marbles appear to live and move, with veins seemingly distended with circulation.
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Greek sculpture is treated as a national instinct for beauty, then expanded through its major artists and civic honors.
John Lord's The Fine Arts, Part 3 frames Greek sculpture as a natural outgrowth of the Greeks' intuitive sense of beauty. It moves from close study of nature to idealized form, then to Zeusix and the famous Venus, and continues into the gymnasia and the games, where victors…
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You get Greek sculpture, ideal beauty, and a speaker who treats form like a civic art.
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