Tombs in and near Rome ; Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884. Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture · Oxford : J. Parker ; London : John Murray · leaf 272
arms tostop the horses. Hades, irritated, flung his sceptre into the midstof the waves, the earth opened beneath them down to Tartarus,and the car with its occupants plunged headlong into the abyss.Cyane, brokenhearted at the insult offered to herself, and at theloss of her friend, melted away in… … SCULPTURE.PLATE III. THE FEAST OF BACCHUS. Sculpture. Description of Plate III. The Feast of Bacchus. From a large sarcophagus of thesecond or third century, found in 1777, in making the foundationsof the sacristy of S. Peters in the Vatican Palace, and now pre-served in the Vatican Museum, No. 28.…
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