An outline history of sculpture for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous illustrations (1893)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 25
e domestic scenes which nowmake the subjects of genre pictures ; and even imitatedvegetables and fruits, as well as to reproduce landscapesand architecture in these pictures cut from stone. Intruth, it is chiefly from the bas-reliefs that we learn thehistory of Assyria, and in this view their… … Fig. II.—Lion-hunt. From Nimrud, tenth century B.C. One striking peculiarity in the designis that all the figures, both men and animals, are given inexact profile. In spite of this sameness of position theyhave much spirit and action. The picture of a lion-huntgiven here (Fig. 11) is one of the…
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