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164 PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART chap, x
of the garment draw away one's attention from the Victory
herself and her relation to the group of which she is a part.
Another tendency, which is visible even on the frieze from
Phigaleia in the British Museum, but is more notable in later
works like the frieze of the monument of Lysicrates at Athens,
is to use garments or parts of garments to fill vacant spaces in a
relief, using them as a decorative background, rather than in
accordance with their true nature. This is, in fact, turning
garments into drapery. It may perhaps be regarded rather as
a continuation of the old horror vaciri of archaic art than as a
new departure. But whatever its historic origin, it represents
that tendency of the Greek mind to mere show, to visible effect,
which is embodied in the case of literature in the rhetorical
impulse.
P. 8. The reader may with advantage consult the useful plates of
Greek costume arranged by Dr. Amelung and published by Koehler,
of Leipzig. These are very satisfactory, and if studied will save the
student from many mistakes. Dr. Amelung's nomenclature differs
somewhat from that which I have used. The Dorian chiton he pre-
fers to call the peplos, a name for which there is some authority.
of the garment draw away one's attention from the Victory
herself and her relation to the group of which she is a part.
Another tendency, which is visible even on the frieze from
Phigaleia in the British Museum, but is more notable in later
works like the frieze of the monument of Lysicrates at Athens,
is to use garments or parts of garments to fill vacant spaces in a
relief, using them as a decorative background, rather than in
accordance with their true nature. This is, in fact, turning
garments into drapery. It may perhaps be regarded rather as
a continuation of the old horror vaciri of archaic art than as a
new departure. But whatever its historic origin, it represents
that tendency of the Greek mind to mere show, to visible effect,
which is embodied in the case of literature in the rhetorical
impulse.
P. 8. The reader may with advantage consult the useful plates of
Greek costume arranged by Dr. Amelung and published by Koehler,
of Leipzig. These are very satisfactory, and if studied will save the
student from many mistakes. Dr. Amelung's nomenclature differs
somewhat from that which I have used. The Dorian chiton he pre-
fers to call the peplos, a name for which there is some authority.