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...muscle, gust of wind or sprouting of vegetation could be a clue in the work of survival. So it is not surprising that Scythian art?both the objects they made for themselves in the 7th-6th centuries B.C., and the ones they later had made for them by Greek metalsmiths???was supremely visual: accurate observation combined with an amazing clarity of design. The panther hammered from a sheet of gold and worn as a shield ornament in the late 7th or early 6th century B.C. contains, in its bulging, simplified planes, all the rhythmical vitality one might expect from Cubist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold of the Nomads | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

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