Studio: international art (14.1898)

Tanagra Terra-cottas

and it did so not only in Greece
proper but at every place through-
out the mare internum where a
Greek colony had located itself.
At Cyprus, Tarsus, Rhodes,
Smyrna, Myrina, Cyrene and Car-
thage, we come across quantities
of these images, of so consider-
able a standard that it is often
difficult to discriminate between
them and the best productions
of Greece proper. In some in-
stances it has been found that
the terra-cottas at far distant
points have been formed from
similar moulds, showing a traffic
not only in the originals but in
the means of making them.

It is of course impossible within
the limits of a paper such as this
either to deal at length with the
various stages of the art in the
hands of the Greek from its
rudest and most archaic type
onwards, or to discriminate be-
tween productions of the various
localities where these figurines


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NO. 4-—A SOUL ESCORTED TO CHARON’S BOAT
(Salting Collection)

WESTERN ASIA MINOR

NO. j.—LEDA AND THE SWAN

(Collides Collection)

have been found and their differ-
ences of material, subject, and size,
all of which are guides to their place
of manufacture.

It must suffice for our purpose if
we select two typical but differing
places, for instance, Tanagra in
Greece, and Myrina in Asia Minor,
which were both prolific in output
and in the number of remains which
have come down to us.

It is but some five-and-twenty
years ago that there began to filter
into Athens, and thence into the
European capitals, some diminutive
statuettes which puzzled the savants
as being unlike anything which had
been previously discovered, and
differing altogether from the art of
ancient Attica, unmistakable in the
austere severity of its delineation of
the gods of its Pantheon. The
new-comers were imbued with a
tanagra character which, whilst maintaining

much of the beauty and dignity of

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