A Handy book of the British Museum for Every Day Readers
A Handy book of the British Museum for Every Day Readers
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In CLA HMCA L A NTIQ UITIKX. 203 1 8, Theseus attacks with his club a mounted Amazon, whose horse has trodden a Greek under foot ; one of her companions rushes up to ward off the blow, while close by a Greek lifts a dying Amazon from her fallen horse. In 21, a Greek has struck down an Amazon, his foot is on her, and he is in the act of plunging his sword into her breast, disregarding her cry for mercy ; but another woman apparently unno- ticed by the Greek hastening up, is in time to avert the ...thrust. The composition in both this and the former legend seems little short of absolute perfection ; the execution is unequal, and not without some obvious deficiencies. The frieze was wrought in rather dark and coarse marble. Flaxman regarded these tablets as " the finest works of the kind which have been handed down to us ;" but it is possible that opinion might have been modified if he had had the oppor- tunity of comparing them with the recently discovered frieze from the tomb of Mausolus, which was also wrought in high relief^ 1 ) We have now to inspect the specimens of Greek sculpture from Asia Minor ; in so doing we shall meet with relics of the art of some other nations.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In CLA HMCA L A NTIQ UITIKX. 203 1 8, Theseus attacks with his club a mounted Amazon, whose horse has trodden a Greek under foot ; one of her companions rushes up to ward off the blow, while close by a Greek lifts a dying Amazon from her fallen horse. In 21, a Greek has struck down an Amazon, his foot is on her, and he is in the act of plunging his sword into her breast, disregarding her cry for mercy ; but another woman apparently unno- ticed by the Greek hastening up, is in time to avert the ...thrust. The composition in both this and the former legend seems little short of absolute perfection ; the execution is unequal, and not without some obvious deficiencies. The frieze was wrought in rather dark and coarse marble. Flaxman regarded these tablets as " the finest works of the kind which have been handed down to us ;" but it is possible that opinion might have been modified if he had had the oppor- tunity of comparing them with the recently discovered frieze from the tomb of Mausolus, which was also wrought in high relief^ 1 ) We have now to inspect the specimens of Greek sculpture from Asia Minor ; in so doing we shall meet with relics of the art of some other nations.
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