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Excerpt from Greek Sculpture: A Collection of Sixteen Pictures of Greek Marbles, With Introduction and Interpretation The most striking characteristic of Greek art is per haps its closeness to nature. The sculptor Showed an intimate knowledge of the human form, acquired by con stant observation Of the splendid specimens of manhood produced in the palaestra. It is because the artist clung to nature as a kind mother, says Waldstein, that the influence of his work persists through the ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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