The Sculptures of the ParthenonJ. Murray, 1903 - 173 pages |
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... detail to general negligence was due to haste or to a consideration of what would be seen and what not , we cannot of course say . The fact remains that in most cases the backs of the pediment figures have not been finished to the ...
... detail to general negligence was due to haste or to a consideration of what would be seen and what not , we cannot of course say . The fact remains that in most cases the backs of the pediment figures have not been finished to the ...
Page 64
... detail the Centaur metopes which have survived from the south side of the Parthenon . One would almost have expected that the Centaurs on the left would have rushed uniformly to the left , those on the right to the right . But the ...
... detail the Centaur metopes which have survived from the south side of the Parthenon . One would almost have expected that the Centaurs on the left would have rushed uniformly to the left , those on the right to the right . But the ...
Page 75
... detail was secondary . Desirable in some of the metopes , it could be exchanged in others with a more generalised rendering of bodily forms , as in fact is the case . Compare , for instance , the Lapith torso , of 31 , 32 , the former ...
... detail was secondary . Desirable in some of the metopes , it could be exchanged in others with a more generalised rendering of bodily forms , as in fact is the case . Compare , for instance , the Lapith torso , of 31 , 32 , the former ...
Page 79
... detail ( Pl . XI . p . 60 ) , and will now 1 This small figure had been over- looked till Laborde had a cast made of it and drew it in the Revue Archéo- logique , 1845 , pp . 16 , 17 . Parthenon , p . 139. He claims that metopes 24 and ...
... detail ( Pl . XI . p . 60 ) , and will now 1 This small figure had been over- looked till Laborde had a cast made of it and drew it in the Revue Archéo- logique , 1845 , pp . 16 , 17 . Parthenon , p . 139. He claims that metopes 24 and ...
Page 87
... being able to study every detail closely , as can now be done ; and this gain does far more than counterbalance the disadvantages just referred to . But these remarks on the present condition of the frieze PRESENT CONDITION 87.
... being able to study every detail closely , as can now be done ; and this gain does far more than counterbalance the disadvantages just referred to . But these remarks on the present condition of the frieze PRESENT CONDITION 87.
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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...