Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art, Volume 1

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A. Fullarton and Company, 1850 - 526 pagina's

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Pagina 129 - Ex uno lapide eum et liberos draconumque mirabiles nexus de consilii sententia fecere summi artifices, Agesander et Polydorus et Athenodorus Rhodii.
Pagina 213 - Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de l'Egypte pendant la domination des Grecs et des Romains...
Pagina 268 - ... walls ; triumphal arch on the road to Aleppo, Cassas i, 15), Sidon (tomb in the rocks, Cassas ii, 82), Tyre (aqueduct, ibid. 85), [aqueduct at Beirout, Revue Archeol. iii. pi. 57. p. 489.] between Tyre and Ptolemais (Ionic temple, ibid.
Pagina 77 - The Erechtheion at Athens. Fragments of Athenian Architecture and a few remains in Attica, Megara, and Epirus...
Pagina 2 - ... from the creation of the form, and the fashioning in the materials seems to be the first, the original object. 6. To the internal or represented in art — the spiritual life whose corresponding and satisfying expression is the artistic form, the soul of this body — we apply the term artistic idea, understanding thereby, in quite a general way, the mood and activity of the mind from which proceeds the conception of the particular form.
Pagina 503 - ... figures in the train of Dionysus offer less variety. Prominent among them is the graceful, blooming, ivy-crowned, and often richly dressed Ariadne. From the nymphs who exhibit no excitement of character, and the rarely occurring female satyrs, the Maenads (Thyades, Clodones, Mimallones, Bassarides) are distinguished by their revelling enthusiasm, dishevelled hair, and head thrown back, with thyrsi, swords, serpents, roe-calves, tympana, and fluttering, loose-flying garments. To the Dionysian...
Pagina 287 - Hist, des Antiquités de la ville de Nismes et de ses environs. Nismes 1825. New ed. by Perrot, 1829. (with a plan of the newly discovered portico around the maison carrée).
Pagina 156 - ... 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 di Etr. arredi in oro del Cav. Campana, Bull. 1846. p. 3. The Campana collection is rich in the most curious articles, which are not confined to the...
Pagina 431 - 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 flourishing period of Greek art unfolded 5 the idea more characteristically (by what artists is unknown, probably in an especial manner at Corinth) ; it gave to Po- 6 seidon, with a somewhat more slender structure of body, a stronger muscular development than to Zeus, which is generally rendered very...
Pagina 210 - 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 at an early period to a surprising height,...

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