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Page 19
The fragmentary body of Poseidon , M , which we possess is not only grand and
true , but without it we have no means of judging how the sculptor of the
Parthenon had treated the colossal figures in the very centre of his two pediments
.
The fragmentary body of Poseidon , M , which we possess is not only grand and
true , but without it we have no means of judging how the sculptor of the
Parthenon had treated the colossal figures in the very centre of his two pediments
.
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We should add here that the body of the boy P was identified and put in its proper
place some years ago , having been previously considered to be the body of a
Lapith in one of the south metopes ; that the drapery of the figure Q is very ...
We should add here that the body of the boy P was identified and put in its proper
place some years ago , having been previously considered to be the body of a
Lapith in one of the south metopes ; that the drapery of the figure Q is very ...
Page 27
The somewhat violent raising of himself has necessarily thrown the more mobile
parts of the body into a confusion which might easily have been indicated by a
sculptor more expressively than here , but never with a finer conception and with
...
The somewhat violent raising of himself has necessarily thrown the more mobile
parts of the body into a confusion which might easily have been indicated by a
sculptor more expressively than here , but never with a finer conception and with
...
Page 30
In other words : Did the whole composition of the east pediment represent a
united homogeneous body ? If so , why are those in the angles so unprepared for
what is happening in their midst ? As we examine them one by one we shall see
...
In other words : Did the whole composition of the east pediment represent a
united homogeneous body ? If so , why are those in the angles so unprepared for
what is happening in their midst ? As we examine them one by one we shall see
...
Page 34
In certain late Roman reliefs ? the horses of Selenè appear plunging downward ,
their heads already lost beneath the horizon , their bodies still visible . It is
otherwise on the Parthenon . There it is the heads of the horses and the upper
part of ...
In certain late Roman reliefs ? the horses of Selenè appear plunging downward ,
their heads already lost beneath the horizon , their bodies still visible . It is
otherwise on the Parthenon . There it is the heads of the horses and the upper
part of ...
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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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