A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 26
odel, there-fore, is like theoriginal drawingof a painter, amaster work. Itis somethingmore ; it is theresult of a pre-vious step, forthe sculptor liasprobably made adrawing beforetaking the clayin hand. In allbas-reliefs tliesculptor firstdraws his designon a slab andfills it in after-wards with… … Fig. 2.—Part of the Egyptiak Statue of Memnon IN RED granite. In the British 3Iuseum. The face measures ^\ feet from top of forehead to chin. 4 THE SCULPTOK A DESIGNER. POINTING. which most of the carving could be done by skilled labour;the sculptor taking it up to give the finish which a…
Sculpture, Ancient
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