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In the metopes we have a long series of combats with barbarism , in which we
may trace the state of things which she was born to rectify . In the west pediment
she herself encounters her rival , Poseidon , and defeats him . All this is shown
on ...
In the metopes we have a long series of combats with barbarism , in which we
may trace the state of things which she was born to rectify . In the west pediment
she herself encounters her rival , Poseidon , and defeats him . All this is shown
on ...
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The west pediment was Act ii . , illustrating the encounter between Athenè and
Poseidon . Then followed the frieze , equivalent to another long choral ode ,
describing the solemnity and pomp with which the Athenians accompanied their
gift of ...
The west pediment was Act ii . , illustrating the encounter between Athenè and
Poseidon . Then followed the frieze , equivalent to another long choral ode ,
describing the solemnity and pomp with which the Athenians accompanied their
gift of ...
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Besides Carrey ' s drawings and the few sculptures still left , most of them
fragmentary , we have only the simple words of Pausanias that the subject was
the strife between Athene and Poseidon for divine sovereignty over the land of
Attica .
Besides Carrey ' s drawings and the few sculptures still left , most of them
fragmentary , we have only the simple words of Pausanias that the subject was
the strife between Athene and Poseidon for divine sovereignty over the land of
Attica .
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Within this group there was a further division , consisting of the two deities
themselves , represented at that stage of the contention between them when
Athenè had produced her olive tree on the Acropolis and Poseidon had made his
spring of ...
Within this group there was a further division , consisting of the two deities
themselves , represented at that stage of the contention between them when
Athenè had produced her olive tree on the Acropolis and Poseidon had made his
spring of ...
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On the right Poseidon seizes by the bridle a horse , below which are the brackish
pool of water and the dolphins . Doubtless this one horse is a sufficient attribute
of Poseidon , but comparing the vase , so far as it goes , with the west pediment ...
On the right Poseidon seizes by the bridle a horse , below which are the brackish
pool of water and the dolphins . Doubtless this one horse is a sufficient attribute
of Poseidon , but comparing the vase , so far as it goes , with the west pediment ...
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Page 118 - I trust, from ever forgetting—what is meant by the virtue of handling in sculpture. The projection of the heads of the four horses, one behind the other, is certainly not more, altogether, than three-quarters of an inch from the flat ground, and the one in front does not in reality project more than the one behind it, yet, by mere drawing,* you see the sculptor has got them to appear to recede in due order, and by the soft rounding of the flesh surfaces, and modulation of the veins, he has taken...
Page 1 - WHEN the Parthenon stood forth complete on the Acropolis of Athens in or about the year 438 BC, there was no other building in the whole of Greece comparable even in the mere extent and variety of its sculptures.1 Imagine a frieze 522 feet in length sculptured all along with figures nearly half life size, in many parts densely crowded till the marble could carry no more, the whole in very low relief and executed with marvellous detail. Above the columns externally and round all the four sides of...
Page 2 - ... workmanship. Within each of the two pediments or gables was an immense group of statues, the smallest equal to life size, the central figures colossal. Lastly, inside the Parthenon was the stupendous statue of Athene herself in gold and ivory by Pheidias. It was he who directed the whole of the...
Page 1 - B. c., there was no other building in the whole of Greece comparable even in the mere extent and variety of its sculptures.1 Imagine a frieze 522 feet in length sculptured all along with figures nearly half life-size, in many parts densely crowded till the marble could carry no more, the whole in very low relief and executed with marvellous detail. Above the columns externally and round all the four sides of the temple were ninety-two metopes, each consisting of a group of two figures two-thirds...
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| Title | The Sculptures of the Parthenon |
| Author | Alexander Stuart Murray |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 173 pages |
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