| Edward Dodwell - 1819 - 686 pages
...perceptible on a close inspection. The armour and accessories have been gilt to represent gold or bronze: the drapery is generally green, blue, or red, which...have been the favourite colours of the Greeks. The scene.took place in the open air, which is represented by being painted blue. Of the battle of the... | |
| Henry Ellis (Bibliothécaire au British Museum) - 1833 - 366 pages
...perceptible on a close inspection. The armour and accessories have been gilt, to represent gold or bronze : the drapery is generally green, blue, or red, which...have been the favourite colours of the Greeks. The scene took place in the open air, which is represented by being painted blue." In this opinion we cannot... | |
| British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1833 - 370 pages
...perceptible on a close inspection. The armour and accessories have been gilt, to represent gold or bronze : the drapery is generally green, blue, or red, which...have been the favourite colours of the Greeks. The scene took place in the open air, which is represented by being painted blue." In this opinion we cannot... | |
| sir Henry Ellis - 1846 - 416 pages
...perceptible on a close inspection. The armour and accessories have been gilt, to represent gold or bronze : the drapery is generally green, blue, or red, which...have been the favourite colours of the Greeks. The scene took place in the open air, which is represented by being painted blue." In this opinion we cannot... | |
| Edward Falkener - 1860 - 408 pages
...perceptible on a close inspection. The armour and accessories have been gilt to represent gold or bronze ; the drapery is generally green, blue, or red, which...have been the favourite colours of the Greeks. The scene took place in the open air, which is represented by being painted blue." l We are too apt to... | |
| Henry Allon - 1861 - 594 pages
...Greece, expressly says, ' the armour and accessories ' have been gilt to represent gold, or bronze ; the drapery is generally ' green, blue, or red, which seem to have been the favourite colours That colouring has so seldom been discovered on ancient statues is owing to the quick fading away of... | |
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