A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 70
be viewed from a distance, itbecame necessary to make the brow moreprominent and marked, so as to castshadow, and the ball of the eye was leftplain. In coins before the time ofPheidias the pupil was marked, andstrongly afterwards in those of Alexander Fig. 38.—Coin of(Fig. 38). In all the finest… … 48 MARKING OF THE PUPIL AND IHIS. keeping with sculptural art. It is constantly adopted in modernworks up to the present time, many sculptors actually represent-ing the reflected high light on the globular form of the eye byleaving a speck of marble or bronze. The eyes in the colossalficTures of…
Sculpture, Ancient
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