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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART
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At the side of each couch is a table, on which are spread refreshments, while at the extreme left is a large bowl or amphora, from which the wine-cups may be replenished.

This is placed under the shade of a tree, which tells us that the festivity takes place in a garden.[729] No one can fail to see, in this entire series of sculptures, the dominant influence of Greece.

While the form of the tomb, and the lions that ornament the covering, are unmistakably Cyprio-Phoenician, the reliefs contain scarcely a feature which is even Oriental; all has markedly the colouring and the physiognomy of Hellenism.

Yet Cyprian artists probably executed the work.

There are little departures from Greek models, which indicate the "barbarian" workman, as the introduction of trees in the backgrounds, the shape of the furniture, the recurved wings of the Gorgon, and the idea of hunting the wild bull.
But the figures, the proportions, the draperies, the attitudes, the chariot, the horse, are almost pure Greek.


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