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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... walls . The entire length of the Frieze which has been preserved is ninety - six feet , nearly the whole of which was found among the ruins of the Temple . One portion of the Frieze was obtained subsequently by Mr. Stanhope , and ...
... walls . The entire length of the Frieze which has been preserved is ninety - six feet , nearly the whole of which was found among the ruins of the Temple . One portion of the Frieze was obtained subsequently by Mr. Stanhope , and ...
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... walls of the Theseion ; and Pliny adds , that it was engraved on the shield of Athene in the same temple . Both subjects were naturally dear to the Athenians , as their mythical King Theseus was connected with both in their national ...
... walls of the Theseion ; and Pliny adds , that it was engraved on the shield of Athene in the same temple . Both subjects were naturally dear to the Athenians , as their mythical King Theseus was connected with both in their national ...
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... walls of the citadel at the entrance of the harbour , having been used as building materials by the Knights of Rhodes , either when they constructed that fortress in A.D. 1400 , or in the beginning of the sixteenth century , when they ...
... walls of the citadel at the entrance of the harbour , having been used as building materials by the Knights of Rhodes , either when they constructed that fortress in A.D. 1400 , or in the beginning of the sixteenth century , when they ...
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... removed to erect the citadel walls . ' As is shown by the narrative of Guichard , cited in Mr. Newton's paper on these marbles , in the Classical Museum . D That the bas - reliefs now in the Museum were PHIGALEIAN SALOON . 33.
... removed to erect the citadel walls . ' As is shown by the narrative of Guichard , cited in Mr. Newton's paper on these marbles , in the Classical Museum . D That the bas - reliefs now in the Museum were PHIGALEIAN SALOON . 33.
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... walls by the Knights of Rhodes is proved by the escutcheons , Latin sentences , and date of 1510 , which Thevenot observed in the same building ; and by an inscription , now indeed scarcely decipherable , which is found on a shield ...
... walls by the Knights of Rhodes is proved by the escutcheons , Latin sentences , and date of 1510 , which Thevenot observed in the same building ; and by an inscription , now indeed scarcely decipherable , which is found on a shield ...
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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 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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