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" The most beautiful body of ours would perhaps be as much inferior to the most beautiful Greek one, as Iphicles was to his brother Hercules. The forms of the Greeks, prepared to beauty, by the influence of the mildest and purest sky, became perfectly elegant... "
Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions ... - Page 2
by Johann Joachim Winckelmann - 1765 - 287 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 32

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1764 - 600 pages
...beautiful Greek one, as Iphiclcs was to his brother Hercules. The forms of the Greeks, prepared 10 beauty, by the influence of the mildeft and pureft...perfectly elegant by their early exercifes. Take a Spartan youth, fprung from heroes, undiftorted by fwaddling-cloths ; whofe bed, from his feventh year,...
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German Essays on Art History: Winckelmann, Burckhardt, Panofsky, and Others

Gert Schiff - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 390 pages
...images, as Proclus says.2 The most beautiful body of ours would perhaps be as much inferior to the most beautiful Greek one, as Iphicles was to his brother...Greeks, prepared to beauty, by the influence of the mildest and purest sky, became perfectly elegant by their early exercises. Take a Spartan youth, sprung...
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Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere

Eric O. Clarke - History - 2000 - 254 pages
...male same-sex eroticism: The most beautiful body of ours would perhaps be as much inferior to the most beautiful Greek one, as Iphicles was to his brother...Greeks, prepared to beauty, by the influence of the mildest and purest sky, became perfectly elegant by their early exercises. Take a Spartan youth, sprung...
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The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece

Martha L. Rose - Social Science - 2003 - 176 pages
...most beautiful body of ours would perhaps be as much inferior to the most beautifiil Greek one. . . . The forms of the Greeks, prepared to beauty, by the influence of the mildest and purest sky, became perfectly elegant by their early exercises.1 This image is immortalized...
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Visual Culture: Histories, archaeologies and genealogies of visual culture

Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith - Art - 2006 - 376 pages
...images, as Proclus says. The most beautiful body of ours would perhaps be as much inferior to the most beautiful Greek one, as Iphicles was to his brother...Greeks, prepared to beauty, by the influence of the mildest and purest sky, became perfectly elegant by their early exercises. Take a Spartan youth, sprung...
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