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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... head by main strength . The Sixteenth contains , on the right , a single combat between a Greek and an Amazon , of doubtful result ; and on the left , a wounded or dying Greek , who is reclining on the ground , and rests his head and ...
... head by main strength . The Sixteenth contains , on the right , a single combat between a Greek and an Amazon , of doubtful result ; and on the left , a wounded or dying Greek , who is reclining on the ground , and rests his head and ...
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... head , arms , and shoulders have emerged from the waves , which are conventionally sculptured upon the plinth , in parallel rows like overlapping tiles . His arms are stretched forward to guide the reins of his coursers , but the hands ...
... head , arms , and shoulders have emerged from the waves , which are conventionally sculptured upon the plinth , in parallel rows like overlapping tiles . His arms are stretched forward to guide the reins of his coursers , but the hands ...
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... head . As it was discovered among the ruins near the Temple , and as the size corresponds , it has been generally supposed to be the head of Athene . The sockets of the eyes have been filled by precious stones or metal , and a furrow ...
... head . As it was discovered among the ruins near the Temple , and as the size corresponds , it has been generally supposed to be the head of Athene . The sockets of the eyes have been filled by precious stones or metal , and a furrow ...
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... head , preserved in the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris , supposed to have belonged to one of the statues of the Western Pediment : it was presented to the Museum by M. Charles Lenormant . No. 105 * . Cast of a head , believed to be that ...
... head , preserved in the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris , supposed to have belonged to one of the statues of the Western Pediment : it was presented to the Museum by M. Charles Lenormant . No. 105 * . Cast of a head , believed to be that ...
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... head of the advancing column . We return therefore to the East end of the building , and take those figures first which are immediately to the South of the seated divinities , towards whom we have supposed the Procession to be advancing ...
... head of the advancing column . We return therefore to the East end of the building , and take those figures first which are immediately to the South of the seated divinities , towards whom we have supposed the Procession to be advancing ...
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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 370 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
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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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