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 34
and was used to batter the walls of a city till abreach was effected. The battering-ram wasat first worked by men, who simply carried it intheir arms, but in course of time it was sus-pended from a wooden tower (Fig. 40), or a … Fig. 39. Argentella lace. Argentella. A name given to a lace made inGenoa, but worked much like Point dAlen9on. Argive. A school of sculpture, contemporarywith the Attic School of Pheidias ; of whichPolycletus was the head. He was the author ofthe Canon, or law of proportion in…
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