 | Charles Thomas Newton - Levant - 1865 - 358 pages
...so heroic a type ; and we may here detect the first germs of that sensual element which gained such an ascendancy in the later schools of art, but of...against the other with extreme subtlety. We must also bear in mind that as the Mausoleum stood on a lofty basement, the frieze would be placed at a much... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Sculpture - 1900 - 336 pages
...and we may here detect the development of that sensual element which gained so powerful an ascendency in the later schools of art, but of which we have no trace in the works of Pheidias, and only faint suggestions in the Phigaleian frieze. The whole frieze was coloured. From... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Greece - 1903 - 888 pages
...and we may here detect the first germs of that sensual element which gained so powerful an ascendency in the later schools of art, but of which we have no trace in the works of Phidias" (Newton, Guide to the Mausoleum Room, p. 7). The whole frieze was originally coloured. The ground of... | |
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Amazons, forms occur which seem rather too voluptuous for such a heroic type, and we may here detect the first germs of that sensual element, which gained so powerful an ascendancy in the later schools of art, but of which we have no trace in the works... 