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" They are so different in their degrees of merit as to be evidently the works of many different persons, some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age. "
Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief ... - Page 389
by Edward Edwards - 1870 - 780 pages
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...elaborately made out ; but they are so different in their degrees of merit, as to be evidently the works of many different persons, some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age. The well known sitting figures of Jupiter, which appear...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...considers the metopes to be so different in th^ir degrees of merit, as to be evidently the works of mii'iy different persons ; some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age. Proud of his quotation, Mr. W. exclaims; " Supported...
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A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum ...

British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Marble sculpture, Greek - 1830 - 226 pages
...more important details of the art of Phidias ;" and the Metopes are stated "to be evidently the works of many different persons, some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age." Notwithstanding this denunciation, pronounced as it...
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ...

Charles Frederick Partington - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1116 pages
...elaborately made out : bu they are so different in their degrees of merit, as t be evidently the works of many different persons some of whom would not have been entitled to the ran of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age A very good illustration of early basso-relievo...
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The British Annals of Education for ...: Being The Scholastic ..., Volumes 1-2

Education - 1844 - 688 pages
...elaborately made out: but they are so different in their degrees of merit, as to be evidently the works of many different persons ; some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious *ee> One of the peculiarities of the early artists was a desire...
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Daedalus: Or, The Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture

Edward Falkener - Art - 1860 - 408 pages
...ancient sculptor regarded it ever in the first place as a work of sculpture. have been sculptured by persons, " some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age " than that of Pericles, to which they were attributed.1...
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Ancient marbles in Great Britain, tr. by C.A.M. Fennell

Adolf Theodor F. Michaelis - 1882 - 898 pages
...little light upon the more important details of his art ........ They are ____ evidently the works of many different persons, some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age sw ." Harmless as such idle judgments would have been...
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Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Volume 1

Adolf Michaelis - Sculpture, Ancient - 1882 - 248 pages
...can throw but little light upon the more important details of his art They are evidently the works of many different persons, some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious ageaM." Harmless as such idle judgments would have been in...
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Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-century Culture of Art

Jonah Siegel - Art - 2000 - 384 pages
...throw but little light upon the more important details of his art. . . . They are evidently the works of many different persons, some of whom would not have been entitled to the rank of artists in a much less cultivated and fastidious age.2 Payne's remarks occur in a volume which represents the...
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