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characteristic art of Greece; . . . it achieved the highest
attainments”. Such has been the usual approach to Greek
art. The prize must go to sculpture in stone, with which
large works cast in bronze were often associated; next
came painting, which is now represented mainly by
drawings made on the surfaces of ancient vases; third
came the so-called “minor arts”, under which label were
grouped with condescension and convenience the work of
die-cutters, gem-engravers, jewellers, and celators (or
metalchasers). But does such “classing” in any way
correspond with the ideas which the Greeks themselves
held about artists and art?
It is certain that they had very different views.
Even in the distant age of bronze the inhabitants of
Greece and the islands held the skilled worker in metal in
very high regard. His art was both a mystery and a