Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

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PREFACE.

cussions, or exhaustive descriptions and analyses of works of
art, which his scope and limits render at once unnecessary
and impossible.

The work is mainly based, as all such works must be, on
the researches and criticisms of German archaeologists. But
while the Author has gladly availed himself of their aid, as well
as that of the many distinguished writers on the same subject
in England, France, and Italy, he has endeavoured, by a
diligent study of the sources of art-history, and, above all,
by a familiar and loving acquaintance with the originals of
all the works of art referred to in the following pages, to free
himself from the tyranny of great names and to form an
independent judgment.

It is hardly necessary to say that the illustrations are
not offered as works . of art, or as representative of the
bcauly of the originals from which they are taken. With
some exceptions they aim at nothing more than to re-
mind one class of readers of what they have already seen,
and to indicate to another what they are to look for on
entering for the first time a museum of ancient marbles.

The Author has an apology to offer in reference to the
orthography of the Greek names which occur in his work.
He began with a resolution to be strictly consistent—a reso-
lution which he has not altogether adhered to. After waver
ing between a purely Greek and a purely Latin orthography,
between the Scylla of Thoukudidcs on the one side and the
Charybdis of Samits on the other, he has been betrayed into