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The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)

San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 431

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3 feet from the top of the steps. Of the central group (fig. 1). above referred to, this armed Peaceis a woman of majestic mien draped in a mantle which almost completely hidesher coat of mail. Her buckler leans against an altar on her left, while sheextends her protecting right arm over the winged… … TIic Architect and Engineer 93 fullv u])rig-ht his flaniiiis;- torch. This strikes one as a more etfective arrant;c-nient than the infant Ilenty resting- on the arm of Peace in the celelirateilgroup of Cephisodotus. which douljtless suggested to Praxiteles the groupingof Dionvsus on the arm of…

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