Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 245
the sailors, who jumpedoverboard and were changed into dolphins, is the subjectof the fine relief on the frieze of the Lysikrates monument(Fig. 275 and Frontispiece). The lion, tiger, bull, and ram are his favourite animalattributes Among plants, the vine, the ivy, and the laurelwere sacred to him.… … Fig. 276.—Victor}, Munich Collection. wings, a palm branch, and holding a laurel wreath, and,as would be expected, was more extensively venerated atRome than in Greece. In the latter country her statuesare generally of a small size, and she is an accompanyinggoddess to Athene and Zeus Fig. 276^.…
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