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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... centre seizing the dead man's shield , and a Greek supporting and leading from the field a wounded and fainting comrade . The Fifteenth contains single combats of a Greek and an Amazon . In that to the right , the Greek on his knees is ...
... centre seizing the dead man's shield , and a Greek supporting and leading from the field a wounded and fainting comrade . The Fifteenth contains single combats of a Greek and an Amazon . In that to the right , the Greek on his knees is ...
الصفحة 26
... centre , a warrior , over whose right arm and thigh a lion's skin is thrown , is striking a mounted Amazon who had trampled under her feet a helmeted warrior while attempting to draw his sword from the scabbard . Another Amazon is ...
... centre , a warrior , over whose right arm and thigh a lion's skin is thrown , is striking a mounted Amazon who had trampled under her feet a helmeted warrior while attempting to draw his sword from the scabbard . Another Amazon is ...
الصفحة 38
... centre of the Western . A large group near the principal figure in this Pediment had fallen , and , with several of the statues near it , had for security's sake been built up with later masonry . Many , too , of the heads and of the ...
... centre of the Western . A large group near the principal figure in this Pediment had fallen , and , with several of the statues near it , had for security's sake been built up with later masonry . Many , too , of the heads and of the ...
الصفحة 47
... centre of this Pediment , the strife of the two Deities being expressed by the opposite direction of their move- Both are moving hastily towards their respective chariots , which stand behind each . That of Poseidon was probably drawn ...
... centre of this Pediment , the strife of the two Deities being expressed by the opposite direction of their move- Both are moving hastily towards their respective chariots , which stand behind each . That of Poseidon was probably drawn ...
الصفحة 61
... centre of this front , and also between groups of the assembled Divinities , we cannot but suppose to be engaged in the principal action of the whole piece . The illustrious personages , who are seated on either side of the central ...
... centre of this front , and also between groups of the assembled Divinities , we cannot but suppose to be engaged in the principal action of the whole piece . The illustrious personages , who are seated on either side of the central ...
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altar Amazon ancient Antoninus Pius Apollo appears artists Assyrian Athenian Athens bas-relief bearded bearing belonged body bronze building bull bust called casts celebrated Centaur character chariot coins collection colossal columns combat conjectured containing decorated Deities described Dionysus Divinities drapery Egypt Egyptian Elgin Room executed feet female figure flourish fragment Frieze front Gavin Hamilton Goddess Greek Hadrian's villa hair head helmet Heracles Hieroglyphics holding horses inscribed inscription King Lapith left hand legs lion Lycian Metopes mummy Museum Marbles Museum possesses Obelisk originally ornamented Osiris Palace Parthenon peculiar pediment period Persian PHEIDIAS placed portion Praxiteles preserved probably Rameses Rameses II relief remains repre representation represented resemblance right hand Roman Rome round ruins sarcophagus Satyr sculptures seated shield shoulders side Sir Charles Fellows slab standing statuary statue supposed tablet Temple Theseus tomb vase Victory Villa votive walls warrior wearing workmanship Xanthus Zeus
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الصفحة 270 - 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 403 - 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 270 - 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 372 - 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 7 - 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 264 - 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 35 - 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 156 - 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 118 - ... 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 38 - ... 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...