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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXPLANATION OF THE COLOURED PLATE, THE ALEXANDER SARCOPHAGUS The Alexander Sarcophagus in the Museum at Constantinople may be ascribed to the end of the fourth century ?. ?., and is probably the work of an Athenian artist. It is the largest of the Greek Sarcophagi found at Sidon in 1887 by Humdy Bey, the meritorious Director-General of the Imperial Turkish Museum. The view that it is the actual coffin of Alexander is exploded; but there is still a difference of opinion whether we are to consider the Sarcophagus as a monument to a Macedonian noble of Alexander's suite, or as commemorating one of the Oriental potentates who flourished under the Macedonian supremacy. However that may be, the hunting and battle scenes, which adorn the two long sides and short sides of the chest as well as each of the gables of the lid, are historical pictures in the fullest sense of the word and masterpieces of Greek sculpture. A cavalry battle, in which King Alexander himself, on the extreme left, is charging forward to decide the day (the battle of Issus, we may suppose), is depicted on the one long side; a lion hunt, which will recall the joint work of Lysippus and Leochares, intended for Delphi, on the other. The effect of the plastic work, which is executed with great vividness and with an almost exaggerated delicacy, is enhanced by colouring in virtually perfect preservation. The bare parts, as well as the background of the relief, glitter in the original warm whiteness of the Pentelic marble. The other parts are brilliant with rich hues of yellow, violet, purple, red, and blue. The frieze on the lid shows yellow vine tendrils on a violet ground. Here, too, we have an additional proof that fonns borrowed essentially from nature, such as leaves, tendrils, or branches, are the novelty...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217618335
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217618332
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 739 gr


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