Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 588
ANCIENT GREECE (a statue of the god singing to his harp) and the Venus Victrix of the Iyouvre may possibly be copies of his works. Of the Niobe group I shall speak later. A subject of great interest in connexion with Scopas is that of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the magnificent monument … ably a frieze, and this was surmounted by a roof in the form of a pyramid with twenty-four steps, on the The Mausoleum top Qf which was a chariot. Reconstruction by Adler pHny, who thus describes it, tells us that Scopas and four other famous Greek artists were employed on the sculptures. The…
Art · Greek literature · Philosophy, Ancient
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