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, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 140
, with the mottofrom Horace, S//perat tellus, sidera donat(Earth conquers us, but gives us Heaven). Elevation, (i) In Architecture, &c., a per-pendicular plan drawn to a scale. (2) InChristian archreology, the Hftiig up of theelements at certain points in the Eucharistic ser-vice, universally… … Fig. 282. Bas-reLef from the frieze of die 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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