ABSTRACT
Carving, Modelling and Agostino The heads particularly are squashed back. Yet what roundness is suggested by the curve of the shoulders, what fullness by the slight indication of the breasts! Curiously enough, such sensitiveness to the radiance of human form and to the kindred radiance of marble, immediately proposes a Greek ancestry, although these figures antedate Achaian invasions by many hundreds of years. One will conclude, however, that this particular sensitiveness to luminous gradations of marble, Greek or not Greek, is through and through Mediterranean.
