The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c9.88

v1.c9.88

**Etruscan schools :** The first style of the Etruscan art was far inferior to that of Daedalus. "The rectilinear lines, the rigid attitude, the imperfect moulding of the features, the want of proportion in the limbs, and the oblique eyes which characterise it, and which received from the Romans the contemptuous name of opera Tuscanica", and the exaggerated form of its second style, the very opposite of all that is graceful, easy, and flowing, place them in a low stage. The superiority of the later Etruscan, as of the Roman, style is due to the influence of the Greek art of the golden age, and need not therefore be noticed in detail.