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A manual of historic ornament, treating upon the evolution, tradition, and development of architecture & the applied arts; (1906)

Glazier, Richard, 1851-1918 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 29

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its heroes and deities, heralds and magistrates ; its sacrificial oxen, and its horses and riders are doubtless the most perfect production of the sculptor’s art. Each figure is full of life and motion, admirable in detail, having an individuality of action and expression, yet with a unity of… … The Parthenon, however, was but the shrine of the standing figure or statue of the goddess Athene, which was 37 feet high, and formed of plates of gold and ivory, termed Chryselephantine sculpture. Probably owing to the intrinsic value of the material, this work of Phidias disappeared at an early…

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