Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . II. The iEginetan, or archaic . (580—480 ) III. The Phidian, or the grand . (480—400 ) IV. The Praxitelean, or the beautiful (400—250 )V. The Decline . . (250— ) Prior to the age of Deedalus, there was an earlier stage in thedevelopment of the art, in which the want of art, which is peculiarto that early stage, was exhibited in rude attempts at the represen-tation of the human figure, for similar and almost identical ruderepresentations are attempted in the early stages of art in allcountries; as the early attempts of ch
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . II. The iEginetan, or archaic . (580—480 ) III. The Phidian, or the grand . (480—400 ) IV. The Praxitelean, or the beautiful (400—250 )V. The Decline . . (250— ) Prior to the age of Deedalus, there was an earlier stage in thedevelopment of the art, in which the want of art, which is peculiarto that early stage, was exhibited in rude attempts at the represen-tation of the human figure, for similar and almost identical ruderepresentations are attempted in the early stages of art in allcountries; as the early attempts of children are nearly identical inall ages. In this early period the first attempt at representationconsisted in fashioning a block of stone or wood into some semblance 124 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. of the human form, and this rude attempt constituted a this primitive form was the Cupid of Thespiae ; the Juno of Argoswas fashioned in a similar rude manner from the trunk of a wildpear tree. These attempts were thus nothing more than shapeless.
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