An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 134
ace, ■^ Superat telltis, sidera donat^(Earth compiers us, but gives us Heaven). Elevation, (i) In Architecture, &c., a per-pendicular i)lan drawn to a scale. (2) InChristian archaeology, the Uftiug up of theelements at certain points in the Eucharistic ser-vice, universally prescribed in the… … Fig. 282. Bas-reUef from the frieze of the Parthenon. One of the Elgin Marbles. British Museum by Lord Elgin. They areadorned with sculptures in relief; those on thefrieze represent the Panathenaic procession inhonour of Athena; those on the metopes, chieflythe contests of the Centaurs and…
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