The palaces of Crete and their builders . e sameprotuberances at the base of the trunk, and are thus differentiatedfrom the forms of European races as we know If we compare these statuettes with the later archaic Greekwork, , the famous discoveries on the Acropolis of Athens, weshall see how the Greek ideal of beauty changed. Certainly theconception of female charms before the bronze epoch was very In my work, Idoli feminili c figure di animali nell eta neoHtica (Memorie dclla R. Accademia delle scienzc di Torino, 1907), I publish femaleidols found in Italy similar to those of Crete
The palaces of Crete and their builders . e sameprotuberances at the base of the trunk, and are thus differentiatedfrom the forms of European races as we know If we compare these statuettes with the later archaic Greekwork, , the famous discoveries on the Acropolis of Athens, weshall see how the Greek ideal of beauty changed. Certainly theconception of female charms before the bronze epoch was very In my work, Idoli feminili c figure di animali nell eta neoHtica (Memorie dclla R. Accademia delle scienzc di Torino, 1907), I publish femaleidols found in Italy similar to those of Crete. 269 2/0 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS different from later ideals, and the early artist evidently ex-aggerated reality in order to emphasise the profile of the form,and render it pleasing to primitive man. A small cross on thehip of the statuette suggests tattooing, and this proves that theCretans passed, as all nations did, through that stage of barbarismin which tattooing and scars on the skin were a distinction and
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