Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved ThereMurray, 1851 - 472 من الصفحات |
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... Theseus was connected with both in their national legends . Thus , in the combat between the Centaurs and Lapithæ , Theseus fights on the side of the latter , as the friend and guest of Peirithous ; while in the contest between the ...
... Theseus was connected with both in their national legends . Thus , in the combat between the Centaurs and Lapithæ , Theseus fights on the side of the latter , as the friend and guest of Peirithous ; while in the contest between the ...
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... Theseus . On the right of the slab are two figures , one of a Lapith , who has seized the head of one of the Centaurs by the hair ; the other , a female , who is escaping from the fray . The Fifth has for its subject two single combats ...
... Theseus . On the right of the slab are two figures , one of a Lapith , who has seized the head of one of the Centaurs by the hair ; the other , a female , who is escaping from the fray . The Fifth has for its subject two single combats ...
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... the attitude of supplication ; and behind the man to the extreme right is a tree from which a lion's skin is hanging . It has been supposed that the 8 . man is Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur. 20 GREEK ANTIQUITIES .
... the attitude of supplication ; and behind the man to the extreme right is a tree from which a lion's skin is hanging . It has been supposed that the 8 . man is Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur. 20 GREEK ANTIQUITIES .
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Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved There William Sandys Wright Vaux, British Museum. 8 . man is Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur Eurytion for. PHIGALEIAN SALOON . 21.
Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved There William Sandys Wright Vaux, British Museum. 8 . man is Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur Eurytion for. PHIGALEIAN SALOON . 21.
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... Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur Eurytion for disrob- ing Hippodameia ; but there is nothing on the slab itself to confirm this attribution . 10 . The Eleventh represents two figures , the one in , and the other preparing to ...
... Theseus taking vengeance on the Centaur Eurytion for disrob- ing Hippodameia ; but there is nothing on the slab itself to confirm this attribution . 10 . The Eleventh represents two figures , the one in , and the other preparing to ...
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الصفحة 268 - What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird. These winged human-headed lions...
الصفحة 401 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
الصفحة 268 - I used to contemplate for hours these mysterious emblems, and muse over their intent and history. What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body...
الصفحة 370 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
الصفحة 5 - Notwithstanding with nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had.
الصفحة 262 - It stands on a single stem, and has handles very curiously formed of swans' necks and heads gracefully intertwined : it was brought to England in 1825, and presented to the Museum by Lord Western in 1839. An oblong basin of granite, similar to such as were used in the temples to contain the water necessary for the purification of those who sought admittance to the sacrifices.
الصفحة 33 - Porphyrogenitus in the tenth, and Eudocia in the eleventh centuries, respectively speak of it in terms which imply that it was still existing during those periods ; while Fontanus, the historian of the siege of Rhodes, states that a German knight, named Henry Schlegelholt, constructed the citadel at Budrun out of the mausoleum.
الصفحة 154 - Harpagus, in whose honour this monument was erected in the market-place of the twelve gods. No. 142. Tomb of a satrap of Lycia named Paiafa, with a roof in the form of a pointed arch, surmounted by a ridge. On each side of the roof is an armed figure, perhaps Glaucus or Sarpedon, in a chariot of four horses, and along the ridge a combat of warriors on horseback, and a Lycian inscription ; in the Western gable is a small door for introducing the corpse.
الصفحة 116 - ... then, let the divinest of the muses, let Astronomy approach, and take him by the hand ; let her ' Come, but keep her wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes.
الصفحة 36 - ... pavement, to which there was an ascent of three steps. The total height of the temple above its platform was about sixty-five feet. Within the peristyle at either end, there was an interior range of six columns, of five feet and a half in diameter, standing before the end of the cell, and forming a vestibule to its door. There was an ascent of two steps into these vestibules from the peristyle. The cell, which was...