Sculpture, Egyptian-Assyrian-Greek-Roman; With Numerous Illustrations, a Map of Ancient Greece and a Chronological List of Ancient Sculptors and Their Works (Paperback)

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. 1892 Excerpt: ...Scyllis, and the makers of the wood statue of the Delian Apollo. Fig. 70.--Warrior Op Marathojj, Fig. 71.--Ulysses (?) Marble, Inscribed tpyov Aokxtokxh. Inscribed in Oscan Characters. Found in Attica. In Naples Museum. i, Athens Museum. ARCHAIC GREEK STATUES. 113 Those who are curious upon this point will find full references in the great work of Junius Da Pictura Veterum, FoL 1694. Numerous examples of archaic sculpture in bronze and marble, some of hammered-out work, are to bo seen in all the museums, a large proportion of which are bas-reliefs representing the figure in profile. Good examples are Figs. 70, 71, which show a general resemblance to the Assyrian sculptures rather than Egyptian, as well as those found at Selinus (Fig. 68). But the examples in the archaic room, at the British Museum, must be studied in order to come to any clear understanding of the characteristics. Particularly should be studied, the casts of the Selinus reliefs (jsos. 16--19), and No. 27, a relief found at the Acropolis, Athens. No. 28, the Leucothea relief in the Villa Albani, Rorne, should bo compared with the Harpy tomb reliefs. No=. 30 and 31, small nude statues of Apollo, without the legs; very stiff, and showing the muscles of the abdomen and chest divided into square regular masses, the edges of the rib cartilages being marked with straight lines at an acute angle to the median line, and the hips narrow in proportion to the trunk. The sharp features with the turned-up nose and smiling mouth, and the short, cusp, formal curls at the forehead, are also characteristic of archaic Greek work, and are seen again in the small full-length Apollo represented in Fig. 72, where we also notice the stiff attitude with one leg slightly advanced. Among the remains found by General...