Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 3): The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the Palace (London, 1930)

454 MODERNNESS OF FEATURES IN BOTH IMAGES

perception visible in the execution of those of this boyish figure. There the
beauty of the feet as a whole transports us rather to Renascence times.

Even more modern is the feeling that has inspired the long waving

Waving
hair and
features
of boy-
God.

Fig. 316. a, b, Enlarged Views of Upper Part of Ivory Figure of Boy-God; c, his
Foot, on Sloping Stand (J).

locks that fall so gracefully from the Divine Child's head and hang down
over the shoulders and the upper part of his back (Fig. 316, 6). The
face itself, compared with the mature features of the ivory Goddess, shows
less expression, as is natural to his tender years. The nose is decidedly
snubby and broad, and the eyelids here, though adumbrated, indeed—as
appears in certain lights—are not well defined as in the face of the ' Boston
Goddess'.

All the same, when the two heads of the Goddess and of the boy-God, as
shown in Figs. 307 and 316, are compared, it is impossible not to be struck