The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 284
inter-rogatus, qu£e maxime opera sua probaret in marmoribus; quibusNicias manum admovisset: tantum circumlitioni ejus tribuebat.p. 633. Sir Charles Eastlake (p. 63) refers to an epigram of Virgil,which alludes to a statue of Amor with parti-coloured wingsand painted quiver; and a very complete… … AyaX/,tarw;^, iyKavarai, yjivawTai koX Bafeig.—PluTARCH, de Glor. Athen. 252 POLYCHROxMY OF SCULPTURE. sculpture at Tlos, representing Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus,shows how colour was employed to complete the work of thesculptor. The body of the horse is quite smooth to the touch,but a bright…
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