The Sculptures of the ParthenonJ. Murray, 1903 - 173 pages |
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... left foot and raising his right knee ; his right hand has caught hold of an end of his mantle , dragging it forward , an action always significant of surprise in Greek art . The somewhat violent raising of himself has necessarily thrown ...
... left foot and raising his right knee ; his right hand has caught hold of an end of his mantle , dragging it forward , an action always significant of surprise in Greek art . The somewhat violent raising of himself has necessarily thrown ...
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... left hand . On the base of his statue of Zeus at Olympia , representing the birth of Aphroditè , the sun was seen rising on the extreme left , the moon retiring on the right ( Pausanias , v . 11 , 3 ) , and on the base of his Athenè in ...
... left hand . On the base of his statue of Zeus at Olympia , representing the birth of Aphroditè , the sun was seen rising on the extreme left , the moon retiring on the right ( Pausanias , v . 11 , 3 ) , and on the base of his Athenè in ...
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... left ankle . But how is his attitude to be described ? The cramped action of his knees is very peculiar . It seems to indicate awakening from slumber at sunrise ... left hand may have held two sloping spears , like the Cephalos on our vase.
... left ankle . But how is his attitude to be described ? The cramped action of his knees is very peculiar . It seems to indicate awakening from slumber at sunrise ... left hand may have held two sloping spears , like the Cephalos on our vase.
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... left ankle . But how is his attitude to be described ? The cramped action of his knees is very peculiar . It seems ... hand raised towards the head in a familiar act of awakening . His left hand may have held two sloping spears , like ...
... left ankle . But how is his attitude to be described ? The cramped action of his knees is very peculiar . It seems ... hand raised towards the head in a familiar act of awakening . His left hand may have held two sloping spears , like ...
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... hand , we learn from a fragment of Euripides ( Nauck , 623 ) that the Fates were divine beings who " sat nearest to ... left . But as a response to the nude Cephalos on the left we have a draped woman , M , on the right . Yet G beneath ...
... hand , we learn from a fragment of Euripides ( Nauck , 623 ) that the Fates were divine beings who " sat nearest to ... left . But as a response to the nude Cephalos on the left we have a draped woman , M , on the right . Yet G beneath ...
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Acropolis Acropolis of Athens action Alcamenes 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 present 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...
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