Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 243
Fig. 273.—Diaaa of Versailles. pastures, and also of commerce and trade. When a childhe invented the lyre from a tortoise-shell which he was 222 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. forced to give up to Apollo. He is represented withwings on his cap and feet, and a heralds staff as themessenger of the gods, and with… … Fig. 274. — Melpomene, \atican. Artemis (Diana) was the twin-sister of Apollo, and wasat first the goddess of the moon. Her favourite amusementis the chase, but in the statue (Fig. 273) from the Villa GRECIAN PEOPLE AND MYTHOLOGY. 223 Hadrian, now in the Louvre, she is represented as theprotectress…
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