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In the metopes we have a long series of combats with barbarism , in which we
may trace the state of things which she was born to rectify . In the west pediment
she herself encounters her rival , Poseidon , and defeats him . All this is shown
on ...
In the metopes we have a long series of combats with barbarism , in which we
may trace the state of things which she was born to rectify . In the west pediment
she herself encounters her rival , Poseidon , and defeats him . All this is shown
on ...
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The metopes may be described as a long choral ode , showing how greatly her
presence was needed by mankind in its conflicts with barbarism . The west
pediment was Act ii . , illustrating the encounter between Athenè and Poseidon .
The metopes may be described as a long choral ode , showing how greatly her
presence was needed by mankind in its conflicts with barbarism . The west
pediment was Act ii . , illustrating the encounter between Athenè and Poseidon .
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There the relief is as high as in the metopes of the same building , which were
exposed to the direct light of the sun . Yet what was good for the one could not
have been good for the other . Or again , in more archaic buildings , as at Assos
in ...
There the relief is as high as in the metopes of the same building , which were
exposed to the direct light of the sun . Yet what was good for the one could not
have been good for the other . Or again , in more archaic buildings , as at Assos
in ...
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The metopes presented a complicated problem . For the sake of the light the
figures had to be in the highest possible relief . For the sake of the architecture
they could not be more than two - thirds life size . Yet certain of them had to be
placed ...
The metopes presented a complicated problem . For the sake of the light the
figures had to be in the highest possible relief . For the sake of the architecture
they could not be more than two - thirds life size . Yet certain of them had to be
placed ...
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we find that the deeply grooved triglyphs which separate the metopes into
isolated groups have the happy effect of imparting a subsidiary , decorative
character to the metopes , somewhat analogous to the predella of a picture . Thus
, instead ...
we find that the deeply grooved triglyphs which separate the metopes into
isolated groups have the happy effect of imparting a subsidiary , decorative
character to the metopes , somewhat analogous to the predella of a picture . Thus
, instead ...
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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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