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222 ARCHAIC SCULPTURE.
or ornament, is given on the statues and reliefs of,this olden time, goes to
prove that the sculptor saw such details in nature, and tried to reproduce them.
Those were the good old times honored in ancient song, which speaks of the
Samians wandering in Hera's sanctuary, with slow and solemn tread, in long
robes of snowy white, with hair in orderly locks about the head.37"
Hut as in time the people develop a better taste, and truer sense of grace
and beauty, renouncing their overladen magnificence, and wearing their hair
and garments in a manner better suited to reflect the beauty of the form, then
we shall see the work of art feel the change, the simplicity of natural grace
overcome the fussy attire and whimsical frisi/n- of these older works, and the
intricate and artificial costumes of ladies on these early reliefs disappear before
the chaste simplicity of the maidens of later art.
or ornament, is given on the statues and reliefs of,this olden time, goes to
prove that the sculptor saw such details in nature, and tried to reproduce them.
Those were the good old times honored in ancient song, which speaks of the
Samians wandering in Hera's sanctuary, with slow and solemn tread, in long
robes of snowy white, with hair in orderly locks about the head.37"
Hut as in time the people develop a better taste, and truer sense of grace
and beauty, renouncing their overladen magnificence, and wearing their hair
and garments in a manner better suited to reflect the beauty of the form, then
we shall see the work of art feel the change, the simplicity of natural grace
overcome the fussy attire and whimsical frisi/n- of these older works, and the
intricate and artificial costumes of ladies on these early reliefs disappear before
the chaste simplicity of the maidens of later art.