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ATHENS AND GREECE. PORTRAITS
reward. But the Greek artists of the good period could not
find in defeat and death any elements worthy of their art:
they must represent those whom they portrayed in the moment
of success and victory, not in that of overthrow. The difference
is very suggestive. Infinitely inferior to Greek art in charm,
in simplicity and dignity, modern art introduces higher elements
FIG 56. WARRIOR OF TEGEA.
than were usually taken into account in Hellas. From the
artistic point of view the ancients were right; but from
the ethical point of view there may be more to be said for
the moderns.
A more modest memorial of a warrior comes from Tegea1
(Fig. 56). In the relief we see a man named Lisas in the
1 Bull. Corr. Hellen. iv. pi. 7.
ATHENS AND GREECE. PORTRAITS
reward. But the Greek artists of the good period could not
find in defeat and death any elements worthy of their art:
they must represent those whom they portrayed in the moment
of success and victory, not in that of overthrow. The difference
is very suggestive. Infinitely inferior to Greek art in charm,
in simplicity and dignity, modern art introduces higher elements
FIG 56. WARRIOR OF TEGEA.
than were usually taken into account in Hellas. From the
artistic point of view the ancients were right; but from
the ethical point of view there may be more to be said for
the moderns.
A more modest memorial of a warrior comes from Tegea1
(Fig. 56). In the relief we see a man named Lisas in the
1 Bull. Corr. Hellen. iv. pi. 7.