Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art

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B. Quaritch, 1852 - 636 pagina's

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Pagina 217 - Voyage à l'oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés à l'orient et à l'occident de la Thébaïde, fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818 par M. Frédéric CAILLIAUD (de Nantes) ; rédigé et publié par M. Jomard ; contenant : 1° le Voyage à l'oasis du Dakel, par M.
Pagina 108 - Hominis autem imaginem gypso e facie ipsa primus omnium expressit ceraque in earn formam gypsi infusa emendare instituit Lysistratus Sicyonius frater Lysippi, de quo diximus.
Pagina 188 - Julian and Claudian families at particular epochs, and besides the splendour of the material and dexterity in using it, are also in many other re3 spects deserving of admiration. In all the principal works of the kind the same system prevails of representing those princes as divine beings presiding over the world with benignant sway, as present manifestations of the most exalted deities. 4 The design is careful and full of expression, although there is no longer to be found in them the spirit in...
Pagina 429 - ... sometimes degenerate in his sons (Neptuni filii) into insolence and rage. Art however, from its dependence on 4 the religious worship, must necessarily revert to the common fundamental character of all gods, and soften and moderate the poetical conception accordingly: in earlier times especially, Poseidon was for the most part represented in lofty repose, and carefully draped even in combat; although, however, he was even at that time also sculptured entirely naked, and in violent action. The...
Pagina 474 - ... the bath, covering her bosom with a piece of the drapery which hangs round behind her; there was a celebrated one of this kind in Alexandria Troas which was often copied in 2 antiquity. Forms intentionally over delicate and flowing are observable in the meretricious statue of Aphrodite Callipygos. 3 On the other hand, ancient art felt itself challenged to the observance of the purest proportions, the most faultless representation of beautiful forms, when the goddess appeared completely unveiled....
Pagina 440 - ... coins. On these we find the elder form of the head of Apollo often very gracefully developed, but still the same on the whole until down to the time of Philip. The laurel wreath, and the hair parted at the crown, shaded to the side along the forehead, usually waving down the neck, sometimes however also taken up and pinned together (dxejasxo/tjis), here serve particularly to designate the god.
Pagina 391 - Haud similis virgo est virginum nostrarum ; quas matres student Demissis humeris esse , vincto pectore , ut gracilae sient.
Pagina 376 - MOSAICWORK. 1 322. Mosaic, in the widest sense of the word, any work which produces a design or painting on a surface by the joining together of hard bodies, comprises the following kinds: 1. Floors formed of pieces of stone of different colours, geometri2 cally cut and cemented together, pavimenta sectilia. 2. Windows, composed of glass -panes of different colours, which 3 appear to have been known at least to later antiquity. 3. Floors inlaid with small cubes of stone forming a coloured design,...
Pagina 210 - Herod, iii, 10. 11. 77. on the skulls at Pelusium. 3. Bunsen. Egypt's Place in the History of the World. Sect. 4. 5. 4. The sculptures of upper Nubia present the same forms and colour of body as the Egyptian. — There was only a political union under Sesostris (1500 before Christ) and Sabacon (800). — Сотр. Heeren Ideen ii, 2 (1826) Abschn. i. Ansicht des Landes und Volkes. 1 216. This people, by its quiet and earnest nature, not only carried many branches of industry and the mechanical arts...
Pagina 156 - Etruscan chasing), diadems, chains, rings, and other articles of decoration. Comp. Gerhard, Hyperbor. Rom. Studien, s. 240. A neck ornament, Mon. d. Inst. ii, 7. Annali vi. p. 243. Discoveries at Caere, BulL 1836. p. 60. 1839. p. 19. 72 (this last similar to Micali, 45, 3). [The different crowns and garlands, sacerdotal breast-plates, the necklaces and bracelets, rings and clasps, and so forth of the new papal collection, Mus. Gregor. i tv. 67—91. Grifi Mon. di Cere, tv. 1. 2. P. Secchi Tesoretto...

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