The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 116
Fig. 34.of fig- 35. ^vhich is on the top of the looking-glass onmy mantel-piece. I conjecture that in this case theartist wanted to fill a certain space with somethingnot incongruous with the nature of the building. Heselected a rosette for the centre, and put a figure oneach side. The figure he… … Fig. 35.—Ornament on a mirror over a mantel-piece. was the winged cone-figure, but a winged sphinx, ora winged griffin, would have done as well. All thesefigures were continually in the artists mind as elementsof his compositions, and in this case the onesselected would have been conditioned, not…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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