Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved ThereMurray, 1851 - 472 Seiten |
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Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan Art Preserved There, with Numerous Illustrations William Sandys Wright Vaux. , PHIGALEIAN SALOON. The room called the Phigaleian Saloon contains four.
Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan Art Preserved There, with Numerous Illustrations William Sandys Wright Vaux. , PHIGALEIAN SALOON. The room called the Phigaleian Saloon contains four.
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... four distinct collections of Sculpture ( either casts or originals ) which we shall now describe in their order of date . They are as follows : - : - 1. THE CASTS OF THE METOPES FROM SELINUS . 2. THE CASTS OF SCULPTURES OF THE TEMPLE OF ...
... four distinct collections of Sculpture ( either casts or originals ) which we shall now describe in their order of date . They are as follows : - : - 1. THE CASTS OF THE METOPES FROM SELINUS . 2. THE CASTS OF SCULPTURES OF THE TEMPLE OF ...
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... four legs and tail . This combat was a favourite subject in decorations of ancient works of art . Thus it is found upon the Metopes of the Parthenon , and on the Frieze of the Posticum of the Theseion at Athens and it is said to have ...
... four legs and tail . This combat was a favourite subject in decorations of ancient works of art . Thus it is found upon the Metopes of the Parthenon , and on the Frieze of the Posticum of the Theseion at Athens and it is said to have ...
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... four figures , one Greek and three Amazons . To the left , a fallen Amazon is struggling with a Greek , who has seized her ( apparently ) by the hair of the head . To the right , another Amazon is protecting with her shield one who is ...
... four figures , one Greek and three Amazons . To the left , a fallen Amazon is struggling with a Greek , who has seized her ( apparently ) by the hair of the head . To the right , another Amazon is protecting with her shield one who is ...
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... four years . His widow and his sister Artemisia ce- lebrated his memory by all the honours which the art and literature of the period could bestow . The Mausoleum under which his body was deposited was probably commenced during his life ...
... four years . His widow and his sister Artemisia ce- lebrated his memory by all the honours which the art and literature of the period could bestow . The Mausoleum under which his body was deposited was probably commenced during his life ...
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Acropolis altar Amazon ancient animals Apollo appears arranged artists Athenian Athens bas-relief bearing belonged body bronze bust called Carrey's drawing casts Centaur character chariot collection colour columns combat containing decorated Deities described Dionysus Divinities drapery Egyptian Elgin Room Engr executed Fcap feet female figure flourish fragment frieze front Gavin Hamilton Goddess Greek ground hair head helmet Heracles Hieroglyphics holding horses Hygieia Ibid inscribed inscription King Lapith left hand lion Lycian male figure Metopes monument mummy Museum Marbles originally ornament Osiris painted Parthenon pediment period Persian PHEIDIAS placed portion Post 8vo Praxiteles preserved probably Rameses Rameses II relief remains remarkable repre representation represented resemblance right hand Roman sarcophagus satyr scene sculptures seated Second Edition sepulchral shield Sicyon side Sir Charles Fellows slab specimens standing statuary statue stele style tablet Temple Theseus tomb vases Victory Vols walls warrior Woodcuts workmanship Xanthus Zeus
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Seite 116 - ... then, let the divinest of the muses, let Astronomy approach, and take him by the hand ; let her ' Come, but keep her wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes.
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Seite 5 - Notwithstanding with nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had.
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