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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria (1884)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 236

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uch a rule in those reliefs in which the actual incidents ofmilitary expeditions were retraced. In them the sculptor thoughtit necessary to insert such details as would permit the variousepisodes commemorated to be identified. One of the simplestmeans of insuring the desired result was to render… … 1^ Fig. 113.—Asburnazirpal offering a lihatioii. Height 7 feet S inches. Britibh Museum.Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. Assyrian Sculpture. 207 if an action or campaign had been fought in a mountainous country,he made use of a kind of lattice-work or reticulation, which everyspectator thoroughly…

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