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    Athena Nike unloosing her sandal
    This most exquisite illustration from the parapet of the Athena Nike's Temple expresses the new plastic tendencies of the end of the 5th century BCE. 
    The movement full of nobility of Victory raises in the chiton and in the mantle a profusion of pleats richly elaborated.
    415-410 BCE
    Athens, Acropolis Museum

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