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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Greek Antiquities > Greek art at the Sixth... > Sphinx
Sphinx
Artist : Anonyme

Model : Sphinx

Date : approx. between 550 and 525 B.C.

Material : Limestone
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1913)
Item 24 on 23
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Statue)

Area related
Attique (Greece)


Description   

The surface details of Archaic sculpture were meticulously rendered as decorative patterns. Here the breast feathers were indicated with compass-drawn arcs, and the flight feathers with slight gradations of relief.
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