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‘A characteristic of Classical Greek art is its unity of style* regardless of scale and material. In the miniaturist arts of the engraving of gems and of coin dies, the monumental quality of the major works of sculpture is somehow miraculously caught.’

– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 142

*(But ‘Classical painting had no spatial unity’

– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 145

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