A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 37
materials, to do honourto the god, should have fallen under the hand of the spoiler wasinevitable; so that no examples of this work exist. A smallreproduction of the chryselephantine statue of the Zeus wasmade under the direction of the Due de Luynes in Paris someyears ago in order to see the… … Fig. 16.—The chryselephantine statue of Zeus by Pheidias. As restored by Quatremere de Quiyicy. Height A5 feet. Tlie height of the temple in which this statue was placed was 68 feet to the spring of the roof. STATUES OF WOOD. 15 Wood. Statues of wood of various kinds were made by themost ancient…
Sculpture, Ancient
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