Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . muscles; the same advancing position of the lowerlimbs ; the right hand raised beside the head, and the left only distinctions were that Jupiter held the thunderbolt, SCULPTUME. 12 Neptune the trident, and Hercules a palm branch or bow. Thefemale divinities were clothed in draperies divided into few andperpendicular folds, their attitudes advancing like those of the malefigures. The hair of both male and female statues of this period isarranged with great care, collected in a club behind, sometimesentirely curled. Be
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . muscles; the same advancing position of the lowerlimbs ; the right hand raised beside the head, and the left only distinctions were that Jupiter held the thunderbolt, SCULPTUME. 12 Neptune the trident, and Hercules a palm branch or bow. Thefemale divinities were clothed in draperies divided into few andperpendicular folds, their attitudes advancing like those of the malefigures. The hair of both male and female statues of this period isarranged with great care, collected in a club behind, sometimesentirely curled. Between the rudeness of the Dsedalean and the hard and severestyle of the zEginetan there was a transitional style, of which theMinerva of Dipoenus and Scyllis may afford an example. Themetopes of the temple of Selinus in Sicily were of this transitionalperiod. Mginctan.—In the JEginetan period of sculpture there was stillretained in the character of the heads, in the details of the costume,and in the manner in which the beard and the hair arc treated some-. ADVANC1NG FIGURE FROM THE EASTERN PEDIMENT OF THE TEMPLE OF 2EGINA. thing archaic and conventional, undoubtedly derived from the habitsand teachings of the primitive school. But there prevails at thesame time, in the execution of the human form, and the manner inwhich the nude is treated, a knowledge of anatomy, and an excel-lence of imitation carried to so high a degree of truth as to giveconvincing proofs of an advanced step and a higher stage in the 128 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. development of the art. The following are the principal characteris-tics of the. JEginetan style, as derived from a careful examinationof the statues found in ^Egina, which were the undoubted produc-tions of the school of the iEginetan period. The heads, either totally destitute of expression, or all reduced toa general and conventional expression, present, in the oblique positionof the eyes and mouth, that forced smile which seems to have beenthe
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