 | Charles Thomas Newton - Levant - 1865 - 358 pages
...the ground of the relief, like that of the architectural ornaments, was a blue equal in intensity to ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery and armour picked out with vermilion, and perhaps other colours. The bridles, as on the frieze of the Parthenon, were of metal,... | |
 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Art - 1888 - 214 pages
...noted at the time of discovery as follows : "the ground of the relief was a blue equal in intensity to ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery and armour picked out with vermilion, and perhaps other colors. " — Newton, Trave/s,II, p. 131. PUBLISHED : Newton, Discoveries... | |
 | Art Institute of Chicago - Sculpture - 1891 - 148 pages
...THE FRIEZE OF HALIKARNASSOS. as follows : " The ground of the relief was a blue equal in intensity to ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery and armour picked out with vermilion and perhaps other colors." These slabs are from the Mausoleum, a tomb at Halikarnassos, on... | |
 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Sculpture, Ancient - 1891 - 350 pages
...noted at the time of discovery as follows : " The ground of the relief was a blue equal in intensity to ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery and armour picked out with "ermilion, and perhaps other colors." (Newton, Travels, II, " 31.) PUBLISHED: Newton, Discoveries at... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Sculpture - 1900 - 336 pages
...first disinterment, it was ascertained that the ground of the relief was a blue equal in intensity to ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery...of the horses, as on the frieze of the Parthenon, and some of the weapons, were of metal, as may be seen by an examination of the horses' heads, several... | |
 | William Richard Lethaby - Architecture, Greek - 1908 - 242 pages
...fallen Amazons are charming in design and feeling. (Figs. 55, 56.) " The whole frieze was coloured, the ground of the relief was ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery and armour were picked out with colours." The ground of the chariot frieze was likewise blue, and the plain moulding... | |
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From the examination of a number of fragments on their first disinterment, it was ascertained that the ground of the relief was a blue equal in intensity to ultramarine, the flesh a dun red, and the drapery and armour picked out with colours. The bridles... 