Art of Ancient Italy: Etruscans, Greeks and Romans
New York, NY: Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., 1970. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “For many generations before the arrival in the repertory of Etruscan archaic sculpture, the sphinx with its head of a woman and body of a small feline with curled wing had, permeated mainland and Peloponnesian Greek art from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. By 600 B.C. there were already monumental marble sphinxes as warning and protecting demons..... More
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