eliefs,which hardly enjoy the same facilities for emphasising structureas work in the round. On the other hand the other featuresof the leonine physiognomy are rendered with singular energy.Anything finer in its way than the head of the colossal lionfrom Nimroud figured in our Plate VIII. can… … VOL. II. On the Representations of Animals. 16 strongly upon fidelity to fact as in the historical bas-reliefs, butwhether they made use of his figure as a whole or confined them-selves to the head or paws, they always preserved the truecharacter and originality of the forms. This may be clearly…
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