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A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (Volume 8 ); With Engravings


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839. Excerpt: ... PLATE I. Length of this portion of slab, 7 f. 6. Old No. 17. New No. 18. If we consider the whole Frieze as one long picture, we must look for the most interesting portion, the scene of the main action, the great feature which gives character and consistency to the whole composition, the aim and object to which every part is tending, and to which every eye is directed, to the groups which are sculptured over the great eastern portico, the grand entrance to the temple. Here we see, assembled and seated upon twelve chairs, Deities or personages distinguished from all others by the greater dimensions of their figures; a mode of indicating beings of a superior order very usually practised in the sculptured compositions of the ancients. These figures are arranged in pairs, six on one side, and six on the other, of a group of standing figures, who, from their position exactly in the centre of this end of the building, and also in the centre of these assembled Divinities, we cannot but suppose must be engaged in the principal action of the whole piece. Leaving the consideration of the central group for the present, we will endeavour to ascertain who are the illustrious personages in whose more immediate presence the chief action in the picture appears to be performed; and here we have great difficulties to encounter, arising from a want of sufficient information respecting the details of Athenian mythology, and from the present imperfect state of the sculptures. Were we well acquainted with all the peculiarities of the worship of the Athenians, or even those connected with the ceremonials of the Panathenaic festival, it would be no difficult matter to conjecture, with a reasonable expectation of correctness, what Divinities or heroic personages would be assemb...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235748240
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235748243
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr

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