 The picture represents a scene containing four masked figures, playing upon various instruments ; a tambourine, cymbals, the double pipe, and the Pandean pipe ; a selection not unlike the equipment of a Pandean band in modern times. The drapery is elegant...  Pompeii ... - Seite 42von G. Clarke - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 388 Seiten
...and was esteemed one of the most precious ornaments of the royal collection. The picture repre serits a scene containing four masked figures, playing upon...painter, which is worked in it at the top, in black letters—AIO2KOYPIAH2 . 2AMIO2 EI10IH2E; Dioscorides of Samos wrought this. Winckelmann says that... | |
 | William Clarke (Architect) - 1847 - 636 Seiten
...tablinum of the house of the tragic poet. Another was found in the house called the Villa of Cicero, without the walls, in April, 1762, which, the first...which is worked in it at the top, in black letters — AIO2KOTPIAH5 . 2AMI02 EIIOIH2E, Dioscorides of Samos wrought this. Winekelmann says that a good... | |
 | T. S. Turner - 1853 - 224 Seiten
...drapery was elegant, and the whole composition excellently grouped and drawn with precision; it was formed of very small pieces of glass, of the most beautiful colours and various shades. The hair, the small leaves ornamenting the masks and the eyebrows were expressed so... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 630 Seiten
...band in modern times. The drapery is elegant and well folded, and the whole composition is expellently grouped and drawn with precision. It is formed of...shades. The hair, the small leaves which ornament tho masks, and tho eyebrows, are expressed so delicately as almost to escape observation. An additional... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1867 - 508 Seiten
...different instruments, with a child near them, is of the MOSAIC OF mOSCORIDES. most exquisite workmanship. It is formed of very small pieces of glass, of the...the small leaves which ornament the masks, and the e3Tebrows, are most delicately expressed. What enhances the value of this mosaic is the name of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 626 Seiten
...well folded, and the whole composition is excellently grouped and drawn with precision. It is fprmed of very small pieces of glass, of the most beautiful colours, and of various shades. The hair, tho small leaves which ornament the masks, and the eyebrows, are expressed so delicately as almost... | |
 | John Edward Price - 1870 - 96 Seiten
...elegant representation of masked figures playing upon musical instruments. " The drapery of the figures is elegant and well folded, and the whole composition...expressed so delicately as almost to escape observation." Examples illustrating the use of coloured glass are not wanting in this country. § In a design symbolical... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1878 - 640 Seiten
...different instruments, with a child near them, is of the most exquisite workmanship. It is formed of Tery small pieces of glass, of the most beautiful colours,...the small leaves which ornament the masks, and the ACRATUS ON A PANTHER. HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. derived from mythology or heroic myths. Landscapes and... | |
 | Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 984 Seiten
...f1gures playing on different instruments, with a child near them, is of the most exquisite workmanship. It is formed of very small pieces of glass, of the most beautiful colors, and of various shades. The hair, the small leaves which ornament the masks, and the eyebrows,... | |
 | Oskar Seyffert - 1895 - 740 Seiten
...SamQs. One of these represents four masked figures playing on various instruments. The work is composed of very small pieces of glass, of the most beautiful colours and in various shades (cut in Dyer's Pompeii, p. 276). Another of similar construction portrays a rehearsal... | |
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