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THE SCULPTURES OF THE PARTHENON CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY [
PLATE I. ) WHE HEN the Parthenon stood forth complete on the Acropolis of
Athens in or about the year 438 B.C. , there was no other building in the whole of
Greece ...
THE SCULPTURES OF THE PARTHENON CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY [
PLATE I. ) WHE HEN the Parthenon stood forth complete on the Acropolis of
Athens in or about the year 438 B.C. , there was no other building in the whole of
Greece ...
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There he beheld Athenè contending with Poseidon , and only later , when he had
passed round to the east front , recognised her birth . In an artistic sense this was
doubtless a disadvantage for the pediment sculptures . But what was in some ...
There he beheld Athenè contending with Poseidon , and only later , when he had
passed round to the east front , recognised her birth . In an artistic sense this was
doubtless a disadvantage for the pediment sculptures . But what was in some ...
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The frieze being visible only in the colonnade or , at farthest , on the steps of the
temple , and therefore in diffused light , was by a true instinct sculptured in very
low relief with no pronounced shadows except round the outer contours .
The frieze being visible only in the colonnade or , at farthest , on the steps of the
temple , and therefore in diffused light , was by a true instinct sculptured in very
low relief with no pronounced shadows except round the outer contours .
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Apparently the first successful solution of the problemhow to utilise such a space
for a sculptured composition with figures in the round — was the pediments of
Aegina , particularly the west pediment , where the incidents of a battlefield are ...
Apparently the first successful solution of the problemhow to utilise such a space
for a sculptured composition with figures in the round — was the pediments of
Aegina , particularly the west pediment , where the incidents of a battlefield are ...
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We give them as they were probably intended to be seen ( Pl . V. ) , the nearer
head sculptured in a large , grand manner ; the farther head is only roughed out ,
and at the same time has been sliced off at the back to fit against the vertical wall
...
We give them as they were probably intended to be seen ( Pl . V. ) , the nearer
head sculptured in a large , grand manner ; the farther head is only roughed out ,
and at the same time has been sliced off at the back to fit against the vertical wall
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Sculptures of the Parthenon |
| Author | Alexander Stuart Murray |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 173 pages |
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