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Excerpt from A Ride Through the Balkans, on Classic Ground With a Camera
Our sport of this kind is the collection of photo graphs of works of art - in the case of the author of this book, works of classical art of the great ages of Greece and Rome. Of course, if you have the money, it is easy to buy in a block from the great photograph-publishers prints of the statuary in the Chief museums of Europe and the voluminous publications issued at Munich but such wholesale buying will not be very satisfactory and will merely land you in a colossal Chaos. The original of the famous Fawn of Praxiteles was destroyed ages ago, but there exist some seventy copies of the whole or parts of it - heads, torsos, and so forth, and they are by no means all in the great museums. Some are better than others; some are quite unimportant. The photographs of the figure there fore need careful selection and careful grouping and annotation. It is work for an expert.
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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.
Our sport of this kind is the collection of photo graphs of works of art - in the case of the author of this book, works of classical art of the great ages of Greece and Rome. Of course, if you have the money, it is easy to buy in a block from the great photograph-publishers prints of the statuary in the Chief museums of Europe and the voluminous publications issued at Munich but such wholesale buying will not be very satisfactory and will merely land you in a colossal Chaos. The original of the famous Fawn of Praxiteles was destroyed ages ago, but there exist some seventy copies of the whole or parts of it - heads, torsos, and so forth, and they are by no means all in the great museums. Some are better than others; some are quite unimportant. The photographs of the figure there fore need careful selection and careful grouping and annotation. It is work for an expert.
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.
Details
Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Agnes Ethel Conway
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781334997907
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 306
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Agnes Ethel Conway
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781330516621
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 308
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