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 292
of a goddess for a mortal isbalanced by a gods love for a mortal. The reclining figure in thelower left-hand corner is probably the Anio, into whose watersSilvia was thrown, and where she exchanged her mortal conditionfor that of a goddess. Above him are Hercules and Hebe, a mortalreceived among… … SCULPTURE. Description of Plate VIII.—i. The Games in the Circus. From a sarcophagus in the VaticanMuseum, Sala della Biga. It will be observed that each of the chariots (or bigas) have fourhorses abreast, and that behind the last chariot is the body of a man,as if run over in the race. The…
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