 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 [by W. Clarke]. - Seite 42von William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Clarke (F.S.A.) - 1832 - 390 Seiten
...and was esteemed one of the most precious ornaments of the royal collection. The picture represents a scene containing four masked figures, playing upon...painter, which is worked in it at the top, in black letters — AIO2KOYPIAH2 . SAMIOS EIIOIHSE, Dioscorides of Samos wrought this. Winckelmann says that... | |
 | G. Clarke - 1836 - 394 Seiten
...and was esteemed one of the most precious ornaments of the royal collection. The picture represents a scene containing four masked figures, playing upon...painter, which is worked in it at the top, in black letters — AIO2KOYPIAH2 . 2AMI02 EI10IH2E, Dioscorides of Samos wrought this. Winckelmann says that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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, are most delicately expressed. What enhances the value of this mosaic is the name of the artist worked... | |
 | 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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