The Sculptures of the ParthenonJ. Murray, 1903 - 173 pages |
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Page 87
... young horsemen , it is the legs of the horses which are most conspicuous . The heads of the horses and the riders are deprived of their due amount of shadow , and at some hours of the day the effect is disagreeable . Another dis ...
... young horsemen , it is the legs of the horses which are most conspicuous . The heads of the horses and the riders are deprived of their due amount of shadow , and at some hours of the day the effect is disagreeable . Another dis ...
Page 90
... young boy . We may bear this in mind when we read that it was only in later Greek art that he took this very youthful form . As regards the assembly of the gods generally , we must remember the passage in Homer ( Iliad , i . 423 ) ...
... young boy . We may bear this in mind when we read that it was only in later Greek art that he took this very youthful form . As regards the assembly of the gods generally , we must remember the passage in Homer ( Iliad , i . 423 ) ...
Page 94
... young girls into the presence of the gods , so to speak , reserving the rest of the procession for the other sides of the frieze , with its commotion and its more pronounced suggestions of ordinary daily life ? Having thus made a rapid ...
... young girls into the presence of the gods , so to speak , reserving the rest of the procession for the other sides of the frieze , with its commotion and its more pronounced suggestions of ordinary daily life ? Having thus made a rapid ...
Page 96
... young girls , the Ergastinae as they were called , who had been chosen to weave and embroider the new peplos for the image of Athenè , and who now were allowed to walk in the procession1 behind the peplos , carrying some of them vessels ...
... young girls , the Ergastinae as they were called , who had been chosen to weave and embroider the new peplos for the image of Athenè , and who now were allowed to walk in the procession1 behind the peplos , carrying some of them vessels ...
Page 97
... young master , whose girdle he appears to be fastening . The young man is pulling down with both hands the skirt of his chiton , as he would naturally do just after the girdle had 1 Ion , 1141. These curtains formed a tent , on the roof ...
... young master , whose girdle he appears to be fastening . The young man is pulling down with both hands the skirt of his chiton , as he would naturally do just after the girdle had 1 Ion , 1141. These curtains formed a tent , on the roof ...
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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...