A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 180
nto comparison with the strong work of the pediments. Themetopes being a sort of compromise between the round and thealto-relievo—the figures in each being partly in complete relief,and quite in the round in the salient members of the group—keep their importance with the pedimental figures, and at… … Is -—1 <B tf rd 0) H « 1 CO as pq ^ ^ Ph ce tX) o r^ H THE PARTHENON PEDIMENTS. 157 displayed in combats of two figures only, without one instance offeebleness or anything approaching repetition, are points of thegreatest importance for study, as examples of striking power ofconception and…
Sculpture, Ancient
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