A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 91
l the influence that the stage could lend, we may see howliterature and the drama conspired to prompt the asjjirations andthe conceptions of the sculptors art. The sculptor then becamethe poet in his turn,—the designer ; he was no longer the servantand workman. Inspired by his art, he was called… … * Two bas-reliefs in the porch of the Baptistery at Aquileja have St..Luke with the ox head and St. John with the eagle head. Mrs. Jamesonremarks that the Assyrian Nisroch with his eagle head and wings is notimlike the early figures of St. John, if we substitute the hook and the penfor the basket…
Sculpture, Ancient
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