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 46
a welcome to her own chosen people, and anawful warning to her foes. The meaning of Promachos may be given as championor guardian, and we knowfrom existing descriptionsthat, with its pedestal, itmust have been at leastseventy feet in height. Itwas made from the spoilstaken at Marathon ; itspedestal… … Fig. 23.—Athenian Coins with theMinerva Promachos. GREEK SCULPTURE—PHIDIAS. 35 Alaric was so impressed by its awful aspect that he shrankfrom it in horror. The only representations of this statuenow in existence are upon Athenian coins, and the positionof the goddess differs in these, as you will…
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