Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 238
erected a great templeto Apollo on the Palatine Hill, in which was placed the GRECIAN PEOPLE AND MYTHOLOGY. 217 celebrated statue of Apollo Citharsedus (Apollo with thelyre), a work by the famous Greek sculptor Scopas. Thestatues of Apollo are of two kinds : one represents him as aconquering deity,… … Fig. 269.—Pallas Athene, Naples. pleasing expression. Scopas and Praxiteles made manystatues of Apollo ; copies of some of these are still inexistence. These sculptors flourished about B.C. 400.The celebrated statue of the youthful Apollo known asthe Apollo Sauroctonus (the lizard slayer) is a work…
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