A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 32
g metal, and thus convert it into the finest and mostsearching file, so sharp that even the diamond itself, the hardestsubstance in nature, is cut in the most accurate manner. The lasttouches are given with the diamond point fixed in a tool, andsharper than a needle. Many of the most beautiful… … Fig. 8.—Coin of Elis—Zeus ofPheidias. Fig. 9.—Coin of Elis-Pheidias. -Zeus of hold a place parallel with the greatest sculptors of the ageof Perikles. When it is remembered that the glyptic sculptorworks entirely from his mind—impromptu as it were—some ideamay be formed of the profound knowledge he…
Sculpture, Ancient
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