The Sculptures of the ParthenonJ. Murray, 1903 - 173 pages |
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... naturally arose in his mind . Accordingly , in the east pediment , the most conspicuous place externally , he gave the birth of the goddess . In the metopes we have a long series of combats with barbarism , in which we may trace the ...
... naturally arose in his mind . Accordingly , in the east pediment , the most conspicuous place externally , he gave the birth of the goddess . In the metopes we have a long series of combats with barbarism , in which we may trace the ...
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... natural order of events , was a remarkable gain to the frieze . There the task of the sculptor was to Prof. Butcher , in Some Aspects of the Greek Genius , p . 36 , says of the Parthenon , " In the eastern pediment is sculptured the ...
... natural order of events , was a remarkable gain to the frieze . There the task of the sculptor was to Prof. Butcher , in Some Aspects of the Greek Genius , p . 36 , says of the Parthenon , " In the eastern pediment is sculptured the ...
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... naturally would do , might take his choice of passing round by the north or the south side . In either case he would ... natural thing for a spectator to do after examining the preparation and start on the west frieze was to turn to the ...
... naturally would do , might take his choice of passing round by the north or the south side . In either case he would ... natural thing for a spectator to do after examining the preparation and start on the west frieze was to turn to the ...
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... natural thickness was not to be thought of , still less Plato's notion that figures in relief on stelae were represented as if bisected vertically . ' The whole question was how to attain the greatest explicitness in a long composition ...
... natural thickness was not to be thought of , still less Plato's notion that figures in relief on stelae were represented as if bisected vertically . ' The whole question was how to attain the greatest explicitness in a long composition ...
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... the sea on his left and the moon passing on his right away over the hills . He would know no other sun and moon but his own . With equal justice to the natural phenomena the sculptor could have imagined himself 32 THE EAST PEDIMENT.
... the sea on his left and the moon passing on his right away over the hills . He would know no other sun and moon but his own . With equal justice to the natural phenomena the sculptor could have imagined himself 32 THE EAST PEDIMENT.
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Acropolis Acropolis of Athens action Alcamenes angle Aphroditè apobates appear artistic Athenè Athenians attitude beauty birth of Athenè body British Museum Carrey's drawing carry cast Cecrops Centaur Centaurs and Lapiths central group central metopes centre chariot chariot group chiton colossal composition cows deities drapery east frieze effect Elgin Room Ergastinae figure folds fore leg front girls goddess gods gold and ivory Greek head helmet Hephaestos Hera horses Ilissos Illustrations instances knee Lapith left arm left hand long sides Lord Elgin mantle marble Michaelis nearer north frieze north side nude form Olympia Olympos original in Athens Parthenon frieze Pausanias peplos Pheidias PLATE Poseidon possible procession raised recognise represent right arm right hand scene sculptured seated seen shield shoulders Slab south metopes south side spectator statuette temple Theseus turning round vase west frieze west pediment whole wings woman women xoanon youth Zeus Zeus at Olympia
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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...