Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved There |
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... THIRD Period is the golden age of Greek art , and to it all the finest works of ancient times are referable . During this period arose a spirit of sculpture which combined grace and majesty in the happiest manner , and , by emancipating ...
... THIRD Period is the golden age of Greek art , and to it all the finest works of ancient times are referable . During this period arose a spirit of sculpture which combined grace and majesty in the happiest manner , and , by emancipating ...
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... third , from the same temple , has for its subject Perseus , with the petasus and talaria , Athene in the Peplos , and Medusa with Pegasus . The fourth contains the subject of a 8 quadriga and three figures ; one is a youth standing ...
... third , from the same temple , has for its subject Perseus , with the petasus and talaria , Athene in the Peplos , and Medusa with Pegasus . The fourth contains the subject of a 8 quadriga and three figures ; one is a youth standing ...
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... third of these sculptures are executed in a rude , archaic style , probably as early as the 50th Ol . , B.C. 580. The coins of Enos illustrate the form of Perseus's cap . The fourth is a later example of the same archaic school of art ...
... third of these sculptures are executed in a rude , archaic style , probably as early as the 50th Ol . , B.C. 580. The coins of Enos illustrate the form of Perseus's cap . The fourth is a later example of the same archaic school of art ...
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... Third represents a female who of a Centaur , from whose grasp she is She is carrying in her left arm a child . has fallen into the power trying to extricate herself . On the right of the marble 3 . C JACKSON . another Centaur is ...
... Third represents a female who of a Centaur , from whose grasp she is She is carrying in her left arm a child . has fallen into the power trying to extricate herself . On the right of the marble 3 . C JACKSON . another Centaur is ...
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... third , and last slab of the series , represents on the right an Amazon supporting a dying friend , and on the left another , who is apparently interceding with one of her comrades for a Greek who has fallen wounded on the ground ...
... third , and last slab of the series , represents on the right an Amazon supporting a dying friend , and on the left another , who is apparently interceding with one of her comrades for a Greek who has fallen wounded on the ground ...
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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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