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The many invasions of Greece have had the paradoxical effect of destroying a vast mass of Greek art while allowing enough to survive for it to become one of the standards against which all other Western art has been j u d-g e d. Greek painting has almost entirely disappeared and our knowledge of it must be reconstructed from Greek vases and from literary sources.
Classic Greek sculpture does exist, but even in this field we must largely rely on later Roman copies for illustrations of specific works by specific sculptors. Whenever an original piece of Greek sculpture has survived its qualities are so superior to the Roman copies that the wealth of sculpture which has been lost to the world is almost overwhelming.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s “Head of a Woman”, of the 4th Century B. C., is an original Greek sculpture, and as such is doubly precious, first as one of the small number of originals in this country, and secondly, it h o u g h equally important, as an object of beauty in its own right.
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