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Quote by Augustus Earle
As a painter, I conceive that this must have been the great secret of the perfection to which the Greek and Roman sculptors brought their works.
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Speaking as a painter, the writer believes that Greek and Roman sculptors achieved exceptional perfection because they understood or followed one important principle. The quote calls this principle a “great secret,” but does not explain what it was. Its main point is admiration for the quality of those sculptures and curiosity about the source of their excellence.
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- Darwin Online / Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand (1832)
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