Identifier: ramblesstudiesi00maha (find matches)
Title: Rambles and studies in Greece
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
Subjects: Art, Greek
Publisher: London Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rofessor Sidney Colvin, in looking out for objections to this book,fastened upon these examples, and stated (Academy, vol. xi., p. 70) that 1might as well have produced works by modern pre-Raphaelites as speci-mens of Giottos painting. To this I reply, that did we possess picturesby modern painters, which were literally copies of some of Giottos pic-tures, and were the originals now lost or inaccessible, it would havebeen quite proper to cite these copies, asserting them to be such.This is precisely what I had done. Anyone who will compare theArtemis in my plate with the figure of Athene surmounting tin-apex of the pediment from yKgina (which is reproduced in the castsat the British Museum), or the figures which support the old Greekmirrors, will see how similar the drapery is, and how a Pompcianimitation gives a fair notion of an ancient figure. I take thiample as not the best, but the easiest for reference. Mr. Colvinout that I might have given the Aristogiton, or the archaic stele,
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JLCH USTIC \K1 l MIS (NAP1 • ,,tV in.) ATHENS—THE MUSEUMS. 67 drawn in and the corners turned up, flat elon-gated eyes (especially full in the profiles of reliefs),a prominent angular chin, lank cheeks, and highears. These lovely features can be found on hun-dreds of vases, because, vase-making being rather atrade than an art, men kept close to the old modelslong after great sculptors and painters had, likePolygnotus, begun to depart from the antique stiff-ness of the countenance.1 The Artemis before ushas, however, these very features, which are veryclear when we can see her in profile. But thehead-dress and draping are elaborate, and thoughformal and somewhat rigid, not wanting in grace.The pose of the arms is stiff, and the attitude thatof a woman stepping forward, which is very usualin archaic figures—I suppose because it enlargedthe base of the statue, and made it stand morefirmly in its place. The absence of any girdle ordelaying fold in the garments is one of the most fro

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