Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 239
n. 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 ofPraxiteles. Aphrodite (Venus) was born of the… … Fig. 7.10.—Apollo Belvedere, Vatican. and beauty, and of the generative and creative forces innature ; the goddess of spring, and all kinds of fertility,both in celestial and terrestrial regions. She was the GRECIAN PEOPLE AND MYTHOLOGY. 219 favourite deity of the Grecian mariners, and was…
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