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A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)

Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 204

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ho induced theFrench Government to explore Olympia. So far back as 1820some fragments were then found and deposited in the Louvre. Butthe recent recovery of the Hermes and the pediment statues byAlkamenes and Paeonios is of far greater importance, as enablingus to identify the work of Praxiteles,… … Fig. 97.—Temple of Apollo Epicukios. Phigalia. TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT PHIGALIA. Iktinos, the architect of the Parthenon, was employed to hnilda temple to Apollo Epicurios near the ancient Phigalia in Arcadiaat the time after the plague in 430 B.C. (Fig. 97). The frieze ofthis temple is in the British…

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