Walks Through the Studii of the Sculptors at Rome, Volumes 1-2Monaldini, 1841 - Sculptors |
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... marbles a standard by which to estimate liv- ing merit . In the Elgin marbles now in the Bri- tish Museum we see how the principles of the Ideal in imitation and the Beautiful in execution were reduced to practice by Phidias , the first ...
... marbles a standard by which to estimate liv- ing merit . In the Elgin marbles now in the Bri- tish Museum we see how the principles of the Ideal in imitation and the Beautiful in execution were reduced to practice by Phidias , the first ...
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... Marble should perpetuate the character not costume , should exhibit the attributes of the mind not the decoration of the body . 99 SEPULCHRAL MONUMENT OF THE TWO BROTHERS . In the city of ... lived two brothers remarkable for their ...
... Marble should perpetuate the character not costume , should exhibit the attributes of the mind not the decoration of the body . 99 SEPULCHRAL MONUMENT OF THE TWO BROTHERS . In the city of ... lived two brothers remarkable for their ...
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... marble must have proved a difficult task in ordinary hands ; but it is eloquently told by our author in two fi- gures . A middle - aged female , apparently enfeebled by illness is seen seated ; and , to imply that she is in a place ...
... marble must have proved a difficult task in ordinary hands ; but it is eloquently told by our author in two fi- gures . A middle - aged female , apparently enfeebled by illness is seen seated ; and , to imply that she is in a place ...
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... marble block , occupied in writing on the eternal scroll the good and bad deeds of the deceased . She is , as usual , accompanied with the emblem of her celerity , the wheel : her hair is bound by a fil- let ; aud the beauty of her ...
... marble block , occupied in writing on the eternal scroll the good and bad deeds of the deceased . She is , as usual , accompanied with the emblem of her celerity , the wheel : her hair is bound by a fil- let ; aud the beauty of her ...
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... marble by Phi- dias . The Romans offerred sacrifice to her before they declared war to show that their wars were undertaken on just grounds and under the auspices of the avenging Nemesis . If then she wings her flight over sea and land ...
... marble by Phi- dias . The Romans offerred sacrifice to her before they declared war to show that their wars were undertaken on just grounds and under the auspices of the avenging Nemesis . If then she wings her flight over sea and land ...
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