Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 153
ain by the arrows of Apollo and Diana. SCULPTURE. 131 This statue, Flaxman observes, sixty feet in height, was the mostrenowned work of ancient sculpture, not for stupendous magnitudealone, but more for careful majesty and sublime beauty. Mullerthus characterizes the distinctive features of this… … MI/lolK OF PARTHENON. attained the highest nobleness and the purest beauty, a fire and avivacity of gesture when the subject demands it, and an ease andcomfort of repose when, as in the gods especially, it appeared fitting;the greatest truth and lightness in the treatment of the draperywhen…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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