The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (1908) (14762968184)

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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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CREEK VASES GREEK CHURCH most wonderful of the low reliefs are thoseof the famous frieze which forms the crowningmember of the wall of the Parthenon within thescreen of columns, the wall of the naos or cella.The well-known fact that this whole compositionwas painted in bright colors changes at once ourideas as to its decorative effect as a part ofthe Ijuilding, but modern students can form nocorrect idea of the appearance of elaboratesculptures painted in an artistical fashion be-cause they have never seen anything of the kind.One special reason why the reliefs are peculiarlyimportant to modern students is their undoubtedoriginality. The sculptures found at Phigalia,at Halicarnassus, at Xanthos, and at Gjolbaschiin Asia Minor are the undoubted work of the4th and 5th centuries, and moreover they weredesigned for the places in which we now findthem. This is not so with statues and busts,for of all the great world of Grecian statuaryonly three or four undoubted originals of thefirst rank