Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 56
ions from the frieze of the Parthenon.Perhaps you know that a friezeis a band extending below acornice, which runs around theoutside of a building or the in-side of an apartment. The cor-nice is placed high up wherethe roof joins the sides of abuilding, or where the ceilingjoins the walls of a… … TORSO OF A STATUE OF THESEUS. 38 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. as it is called in architecture, and was about five hundred and twenty-two feet long, and three feet and four inches broad. About fourhundred feet of this are still preserved, so that a good idea of it can be funned. The portions of this…
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