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Page 17
We are inclined to recognise in her attitude and in the violence with which her
scarf is twisted up round her shoulders more action than is perceptible in the
opposite charioteer of Athenė , G . The broad girdle round her waist and her bare
leg ...
We are inclined to recognise in her attitude and in the violence with which her
scarf is twisted up round her shoulders more action than is perceptible in the
opposite charioteer of Athenė , G . The broad girdle round her waist and her bare
leg ...
Page 20
... a double nature — a man with the legs of a serpent . But the sculptor has here
been content to indicate this by a serpent at his side . One of his daughters has
rushed to him in alarm , casting herself on her knees , and throwing her arm
round ...
... a double nature — a man with the legs of a serpent . But the sculptor has here
been content to indicate this by a serpent at his side . One of his daughters has
rushed to him in alarm , casting herself on her knees , and throwing her arm
round ...
Page 40
The one , E , throws out her right knee with a great strain on her dress , which
brings out clearly the form of the leg . Her left arm is not resting idly on the
shoulder of F , but has been thrown on it in a hurried as well as affectionate
manner .
The one , E , throws out her right knee with a great strain on her dress , which
brings out clearly the form of the leg . Her left arm is not resting idly on the
shoulder of F , but has been thrown on it in a hurried as well as affectionate
manner .
Page 46
Her body is tilted over to the front in such a manner that the folds of the chiton on
her right side hang down and fill up what otherwise would have been a deep
mass of shadow . Her dress is drawn tightly round her legs , producing
sharpedged ...
Her body is tilted over to the front in such a manner that the folds of the chiton on
her right side hang down and fill up what otherwise would have been a deep
mass of shadow . Her dress is drawn tightly round her legs , producing
sharpedged ...
Page 52
One of the most noticeable of these occurs under the left leg of Theseus ( or
Cephalos ) . It appears that the sculptures had been covered originally with a thin
wash or size of lime , so thin and transparent that in places we can see the finest
tool ...
One of the most noticeable of these occurs under the left leg of Theseus ( or
Cephalos ) . It appears that the sculptures had been covered originally with a thin
wash or size of lime , so thin and transparent that in places we can see the finest
tool ...
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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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