starched-looking

Updated: May 2, 2025

To begin with, the workmanship here displayed is rapid and far from faultless. Unlike the Aeginetan pediment-figures and those of the Parthenon, these figures are left rough at the back. The garments represent a thick woolen stuff, whose folds show very little pliancy. The formal, starched-looking folds of the archaic period have disappeared.

Frank Bigelow Tarbell - A History of Greek Art