Word: graeco
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Excavations were interrupted last year after only a week's progress by the Graeco-Turkish...
...Athens, for the reproducing of Greek Sculpture. A collection from India representing the life and customs of that country has also been received this summer. An important addition to the statuary is a cast relief from the Arch of Trajar, at Beneventum. This is a cast of the Graeco Roman relief sculpture...
Professor Moore has lately received for the Fogg Art Museum an invoice of photographs from London representing all the antiquities of the British Museum. These photographs comprise Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, and Graeco-Roman works of art in the departments of sculpture, painting and pottery. By this acquisition, the number of photographs in the collection is increased to nearly 20,000. For the practical purposes of the student, these photographs are as useful as the objects themselves in the British Museum...
...other hand, the art of the Renaissance reflected the freedom of though and the tendency to classicism of the Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic Greek and in consequence took eventually a very artificial tone. In the fifteenth century this was less noticeable, but in the sixteenth century art became very artificial and in many cases coarse. The really great work of the Italian Renaissance...