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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... similar works in wood , and to which no certain chrono- logical era can be assigned . 1 We mean by mechanical the use of moulds in reproductions of the archetype . The free use of the hand is recalled in the phrase common in English ...
... similar works in wood , and to which no certain chrono- logical era can be assigned . 1 We mean by mechanical the use of moulds in reproductions of the archetype . The free use of the hand is recalled in the phrase common in English ...
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... similar attention to trivial and meretricious accessories . Thus , in the busts , the hair and the beard luxuriate in an exaggerated profusion of curls , the careful expression of the features of the countenance being at the same time ...
... similar attention to trivial and meretricious accessories . Thus , in the busts , the hair and the beard luxuriate in an exaggerated profusion of curls , the careful expression of the features of the countenance being at the same time ...
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... similar to those now exhibited in this room . Owing to the great violence of the earthquake by which the temple was thrown down , almost all the statues were found shat- tered into numerous pieces , so that it was in many cases hopeless ...
... similar to those now exhibited in this room . Owing to the great violence of the earthquake by which the temple was thrown down , almost all the statues were found shat- tered into numerous pieces , so that it was in many cases hopeless ...
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... similar to those upon the coins of Chalcis . The figure to the left of this slab is very like the Jason of the Louvre , formerly , when in the Villa Montalto , called Cincinnatus . No. 53 expresses very well what is its probable subject ...
... similar to those upon the coins of Chalcis . The figure to the left of this slab is very like the Jason of the Louvre , formerly , when in the Villa Montalto , called Cincinnatus . No. 53 expresses very well what is its probable subject ...
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... similar position between the victims just described and the chariots which follow on subsequent slabs . Of this portion of the frieze , No. 83 , which is much muti- lated , is the only fragment now remaining . In 84 GREEK ANTIQUITIES .
... similar position between the victims just described and the chariots which follow on subsequent slabs . Of this portion of the frieze , No. 83 , which is much muti- lated , is the only fragment now remaining . In 84 GREEK ANTIQUITIES .
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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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