The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 548. gesture the calmness of which reveals a very noble sense of the dra-matic: the other hand is extended in the direction of the dead (, 547, A, 548). The hand of the arm which touches the head isnot lifted very high in front,—it is not to beconfused with the gesture of adoration, which takes a form not unlike this (Figs. 549, 550). 368. Fig. 551 may be considered the prototype of a funeral gesture that is most decorative: one hand rests on the head; the other arm, instead of being extended in front, is lifted in th


The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 548. gesture the calmness of which reveals a very noble sense of the dra-matic: the other hand is extended in the direction of the dead (, 547, A, 548). The hand of the arm which touches the head isnot lifted very high in front,—it is not to beconfused with the gesture of adoration, which takes a form not unlike this (Figs. 549, 550). 368. Fig. 551 may be considered the prototype of a funeral gesture that is most decorative: one hand rests on the head; the other arm, instead of being extended in front, is lifted in the un- Fi* 55°- usual manner seen in the illustration. The neck of the vase fromwhich it is taken is shown in Fig. 552. Fig. 553 shows a variation ofthe same


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