 Micciades, employed this marble, and were imitated by their successors. It receives, with accuracy, the most delicate touches of the chisel, and retains for ages, with all the softness of wax, the mild lustre even of the original polish. The finest Grecian...  A System of Mineralogy - Página 143por Robert Jameson - 1816Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1817 - 658 páginas
.../tapIbid. CHAP, example, the Temple of Ceres at Eleusis,} were executed in the marble of Pentelicus. But the finest Grecian sculpture which has been preserved...generally of Parian marble. The Medicean Venus, the Selvidere Apollo, the Antinous, and many other celebrated works, are of Parian marble; notwithstanding... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1818 - 678 páginas
...Ibid. CHAP, example, the Temple of Ceres at Eleusis,} were executed in the marble of Pentelicus. But the finest Grecian sculpture which has been preserved...generally of Parian marble. The Medicean Venus, the Belvidere Apollo, the Antinous, and many other celebrated works, are of Parian marble ; notwithstanding... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 630 páginas
...It receives, with accuracy, the most delicate touches of the chisel, and retains for ages, with all the softness of wax, the mild lustre even of the original...to the present time, is generally of Parian marble ; as the Medicean Venus, the Diana Venatrix, the colossal Minerva (called Pallas of Vetletri), Ariadne... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 páginas
...receives, with accuracy, the most delicate touches of the . chisel, and retains for ages, with all the softness of wax, the mild lustre even of the original...to the present time, is generally of Parian marble ; as die Medicean Venus, the Diana Venatrix, the colossal Minerva (called Pallas of yelletri), Ariadne... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 608 páginas
...It receives, with accuracy, the most delicate touches of the chisel, and retains for ages, with all the softness of wax, the mild lustre even of the original...sculpture which has been preserved to the present lime, is generally of Parian marble ; as the Mediccan Venus, tin1 Dianu Venatrix, the colossal .Minerva... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1841 - 664 páginas
...Pericles (as, for example, the temple of Ceres at Eleusis), were executed in the marble of Pentelicus. But the finest Grecian sculpture which has been preserved...generally of Parian marble. The Medicean Venus, the Belvidere Apollo, the Antinous, and many other celebrated works, are made ai it ; notwithstanding the... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 páginas
...broken, exhibit the glittering sparry hue which characterises the remains of Grecian architecture. The finest Grecian sculpture which has been preserved to the present time is of Parian marble ; the Medicean Venus, the Dying Gladiator, the Antinous, &c. The quarries have not... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 556 páginas
...early periods of Grecian art was preferred. Of this the famous Parthenon at Athens was built ; but the finest Grecian sculpture which has been preserved...the present time, is generally of Parian marble. The statues and bas-reliefs executed in this kind of marble retain, with all the delicate softness of wax,... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1877 - 526 páginas
...successors. It receives with accuracy the most delicate touches of the chisel, and retains for ages, with all the softness of wax, the mild lustre even of the original polish. The finest (ireciau sculpture which has been preserved to the present time is generally of Parian marble, as the... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1884 - 898 páginas
...waxy appearance ; it hardens by exposure to the air, and is one of the most durable varieties known. The finest Grecian sculpture which has been preserved to the present time is of the Parian marble. The principal statues of it now exten "«• the Med'c an Venus, Diana Venatrix,... | |
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