Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 195
ervening triglyphs were blue. As theseniches were, on the one hand, not deep enough forstatues, and on the other, too high up and far backfor bas-reliefs to be visible, they were supplied withornaments in high relief which were of a medium 166 GRECIAN SCULPIURE. character between full and low… … Fig. 36.—Metope of the Parthenon. a people of Thessaly then g-overned by KingPirithous the friend of Theseus, for the destructionof the Centaurs, a race of the valleys of Ossa andPelion, the licentious robber sons of Ixion andthe Phantom or cloud, who were supposed to be GRECIAN SCULPTURE. 167 half…
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