A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 41
zonwas inferior to the Corinthian,but was said to be better thanthe metal of Delos and Aegina.Mr, Gladstone, in that remark-able book of his, the JuventusMundi, which abounds withinteresting matters of sugges-tion and instruction, says, re-ferring to the making of thefamous shield of Achilles… … Fig. 20.—Hercules holding the APPLE OF THE HeSPERIDES. Bronze, 30 inclies high, found in 1775at .Jehely, Sira. In the British Museum. THE METALS USED BY THE ANCIENTS. 19 lias been more plausibly taken to mean bronze, but which,after a good deal of inquiry, I am satisfied can only meancopper, . . If…
Sculpture, Ancient
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