The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 81
the Louvre, and allowsus to ascribe the statue to the schoolof Lysippus. At a later date, about 195 B.C., an-other king of Pergamum, Eumenes II.,commemorated other military successesby the erection of a colossal altar inwhite marble, dedicated to Zeus, onthe Acropolis of Pergamum. The re-mains of… … FIG. 98.—ATHENE SLAYING A YOUNG GIANT. Fragment from the Pergamenc Frieze. (Berlin Museum.) (Photograph by Levy and Son.) allusion to contemporary events: theGiants of the fable were the Gauls,the Gods were the Greeks of Asia. 62 Some three hundred feet of thisfrieze, the figures on which are six…
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