Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 151
900 camelswith the brass, a statement which Gibbon repudiates as anexaggeration. It is indeed difficult to imagine such a trainof beasts of burden loaded from the remains of one statue;but a possible solution of the difficulty has been found in thesuggestion that the merchant bargained for all the… … The Bavaria and the Ruhmeshalle. Munich. erected in Munich, one of the surprising creations of KingLudwig. She stands on a pavement to which you ascendby a broad flight of steps; a Doric colonnade, the Euhmes-halle or Fame-temple, forming the background to the pe-destal, the goddess herself rising…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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