Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 233
m great 212 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. distances in order to gaze on this masterpiece of thegreatest sculptor of Greece. It remained in its place formore than eight hundred years, and was supposed tohave been destroyed by fire in the time of Theodosius III.The coins of Elis have a seated figure, and the… … Fig. 265.—Coins of Elis with the Phidian Zeus (after Overbeck). many temples have been erected to his honour. The mostfamous of these was the one erected by Tarquin on theCapitol at Rome. It had a statue of Jupiter, the work ofthe Greek artist Apollonius, made of ivory and gold, andsaid to be a…
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