The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 291
, the great ornaments of the Greek drama; andPhidris, the most perfect sculptor of antiquity, areamong the characters, placed by the artist, in this com-position. Plato, and the orator Tsocrates, are likewiseintroduced, which presents an anachronism, in somesort pardonable, it being the object of… … ,T (EDIPUS AT COLONOS. PEYRON. The history of GEdipus is an inexhaustible source ofinteresting subjects for poets and for artists. The in-voluntary crimes of this unfortunate king of Thebes, thepersecutions caused by his son, and the filial affection ofhis daughter Antigone, have conspired to…
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