The Sculptures of the ParthenonJ. Murray, 1903 - 173 pages |
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... attitude and action . That , however , is no greater than the difference between the third daughter of Cecrops and her two sisters in the west pediment . We therefore adhere to the triad of Horae . They were pecu- liarly Attic ...
... attitude and action . That , however , is no greater than the difference between the third daughter of Cecrops and her two sisters in the west pediment . We therefore adhere to the triad of Horae . They were pecu- liarly Attic ...
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... attitude of the figure necessarily leads to an effect of this kind . 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 ...
... attitude of the figure necessarily leads to an effect of this kind . 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 ...
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... attitude of moving from right to left . To place her between Zeus and Athenè would involve two things - first , that she would have to be flying in the air , which does not seem consistent with the action of the torso as preserved ; and ...
... attitude of moving from right to left . To place her between Zeus and Athenè would involve two things - first , that she would have to be flying in the air , which does not seem consistent with the action of the torso as preserved ; and ...
Page 56
... attitude towards each other is clearly that of alarm . youth is gathering his dress as if to run . In the next metope , 14 , we have again a young man and a young woman . But here the youth is in great alarm . The young woman still ...
... attitude towards each other is clearly that of alarm . youth is gathering his dress as if to run . In the next metope , 14 , we have again a young man and a young woman . But here the youth is in great alarm . The young woman still ...
Page 57
... attitude is even stronger . In this respect she may be compared with the striking figure of Medea in the Lateran relief in Rome , than which there is probably no more grandly conceived female figure among existing Greek reliefs . A ...
... attitude is even stronger . In this respect she may be compared with the striking figure of Medea in the Lateran relief in Rome , than which there is probably no more grandly conceived female figure among existing Greek reliefs . A ...
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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...