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 62
rly ap-proached the great Phidias. Herepresented also for the firsttime the god Asclepius, or^sculapius, who was very im-portant to the Greeks, whoplaced great value upon physi-cal health. Alcamenes repre-sented him as a sort of human-ized Zeus or Jupiter. Of theAsclepius heads found at Meloswe may… … Fig. 36.—Head of Asclepius.In the British Museum. GREEK SCULPTURE—AGORACRITUS. 51 his decoration of the temple of Jupiter at Olympia, and issaid to have himself executed the relief upon the westernpediment, in which the battle of the Centaurs and Lapithsewas represented with great spirit.…
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