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SOVLPTUUE.
127
Neptune tho trident, and Hercules a palm branch or bow. The
female divinities were clothed in draperies divided into few and
perpendicular folds, their attitudes advancing like those of the male
figures. Tho hair of both male and female statues of this period is
arranged with great care, collected in a club behind, sometimes
entirely curled.
Between the rudeness of the Dredalean and the hard and severe
style of the JEginetan there was a transitional, style, of which the
Minerva of Dipoenus and Scyllis may afford an example. Tho
metopes of the temple of Selinus in Sicily were of this transitional
period.
JEginetan.—In tho .ZEginetan period of sculpture there was still
retained in tho character of the heads, in tbe details of the costume,
and in the manner in which the beard and the hair arc treated somc-
'HHIIIIIIIII niiiiiniii'iii
ADVANCING FIGURE FROM THE EASTERN PEDIMENT OF THE TEMrLE OF iEGINA.
thing archaic and conventional, undoubtedly derived from the habits
and teachings of tho primitive school. But there prevails at the
same time, in the execution of the human form, and the manner in
which the nude is treated, a -knowledge of anatomy, and an excel-
lence of imitation carried to so high a degree of truth as to give
convincing proofs of an advanced step and a higher stage in the
127
Neptune tho trident, and Hercules a palm branch or bow. The
female divinities were clothed in draperies divided into few and
perpendicular folds, their attitudes advancing like those of the male
figures. Tho hair of both male and female statues of this period is
arranged with great care, collected in a club behind, sometimes
entirely curled.
Between the rudeness of the Dredalean and the hard and severe
style of the JEginetan there was a transitional, style, of which the
Minerva of Dipoenus and Scyllis may afford an example. Tho
metopes of the temple of Selinus in Sicily were of this transitional
period.
JEginetan.—In tho .ZEginetan period of sculpture there was still
retained in tho character of the heads, in tbe details of the costume,
and in the manner in which the beard and the hair arc treated somc-
'HHIIIIIIIII niiiiiniii'iii
ADVANCING FIGURE FROM THE EASTERN PEDIMENT OF THE TEMrLE OF iEGINA.
thing archaic and conventional, undoubtedly derived from the habits
and teachings of tho primitive school. But there prevails at the
same time, in the execution of the human form, and the manner in
which the nude is treated, a -knowledge of anatomy, and an excel-
lence of imitation carried to so high a degree of truth as to give
convincing proofs of an advanced step and a higher stage in the