Disquisitions Upon the Painted Greek Vases, and Their Probable Connection with the Shows of the Eleusinian and Other MysteriesLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825 - 146 sidor |
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... designed with great spirit . These are placed , not on the same plane , but on three tiers or stages , in defiance of the rules of perspective . + This excellence may be particularly instanced in a lettered Campana vase of the late ...
... designed with great spirit . These are placed , not on the same plane , but on three tiers or stages , in defiance of the rules of perspective . + This excellence may be particularly instanced in a lettered Campana vase of the late ...
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... designed by him as illustrations of so many different classes dependent upon them , and with a scanty proportion of letter - press , he has obtained results that do not differ widely from those which the Cav . Inghirami has arrived at ...
... designed by him as illustrations of so many different classes dependent upon them , and with a scanty proportion of letter - press , he has obtained results that do not differ widely from those which the Cav . Inghirami has arrived at ...
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... designed , and the reason of their having been de- posited in tombs . The most probable conjecture on the first head , is that of Lanzi and Visconti , grounded on a passage in the 10th Nemean Ode of Pindar , v . 62 , & c . that these ...
... designed , and the reason of their having been de- posited in tombs . The most probable conjecture on the first head , is that of Lanzi and Visconti , grounded on a passage in the 10th Nemean Ode of Pindar , v . 62 , & c . that these ...
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... designed to celebrate the beauty of a favourite by the words inscribed on the finger of his Olympian Jupiter . I rather appre- hend that proud of his performance , Phidias gave the challenge to criticism , by declaring in the language ...
... designed to celebrate the beauty of a favourite by the words inscribed on the finger of his Olympian Jupiter . I rather appre- hend that proud of his performance , Phidias gave the challenge to criticism , by declaring in the language ...
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... designed to personate the sun , moon , and earth , in the con- test between which one of the three was figuratively said to be slain by the other two . Φοίνιον , αἱμαχθέντα κασιγνήτων ὑπὸ δισσῶν . Η . 39. v . 6. “ stained " with blood ...
... designed to personate the sun , moon , and earth , in the con- test between which one of the three was figuratively said to be slain by the other two . Φοίνιον , αἱμαχθέντα κασιγνήτων ὑπὸ δισσῶν . Η . 39. v . 6. “ stained " with blood ...
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Disquisitions Upon the Painted Greek Vases, and Their Probable Connection ... James Christie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
Disquisitions Upon the Painted Greek Vases, and Their Probable Connection ... James Christie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
Disquisitions Upon the Painted Greek Vases, and Their Probable Connection ... James Christie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
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adduced Æschylus allegories allusion amphora ancient antiquary appear Aristophanes Bacchus baptism baptistery Baubo Böttiger Cabirs Campanulate capsule celebrated ceremonies Ceres CHAP character church ciborium coin collection conjecture considered D'Hancarville deity denote descent designed Dionysus Dioscuri doctrines Egypt Egyptian Eleusinian Eleusinian Mysteries Eleusis emblem Englefield vases erect exhibited explain expressed female figures Genus goddess Greece Greek vases illumined illustrate implied inert inferis initiation Lantern lip flat lip triply scalloped Magna Græcia meaning Metempsychosis Meursius mystæ mysteries mystic nature neck Nelumbium Nymphæa Lotus Oblate spheroidal observed opinion original Osiris Oviform pagan painting passage Passeri perfectory rites petals Phædo phallus plate Plutarch present preserved probably propylæa reference religious represented respecting scenes serpent Shoulder Sicilian vase Species supposed symbols temple termed Themistius Thomas Hope throat contracted suddenly throat open Tibet tombs torch transparent Urceolate vessels vivifying water-lily word γὰρ δὲ καὶ τὰ τε τὸ τοῦ τῶν
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Sida 141 - Spirit : by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Sida 79 - And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Sida i - Disquisitions upon the painted Greek Vases, and their probable connection with the shows of the Eleusinian and other mysteries, by JC,' London, 1825, 4to, plates. 6. ' An Inquiry into the Early History of Greek Sculpture, by the late JC,
Sida 109 - Ex quibus humanae, inquit, vitae erroribus et aerumnis fit ut interdum veteres illi sive vates sive in sacris initiisque tradendis divinae mentis interpretes, qui nos ob aliqua scelera suscepta in vita superiore poenarum luendarum causa natos esse dixerunt, aliquid vidisse videantur verumque sit illud quod est apud Aristotelem...
Sida 4 - ... of the head. The most curious kinds of vases are found in the tombs in Sicily, those of finest manufacture near Nola in Campania. A different description of vessel seems to have' been peculiar to different districts, yet somo of almost every kind are found in the same tomb.
Sida 142 - Octachorum sanctos templum surrexit in usus, Octagonus fons est, munere dignus eo. Hoc numero decuit sacri baptismatis aulam Surgere, quo populis vera salus rediit...
Sida 6 - Sacrorum pleraque initia in Graecia participavi. Eorum quaedam signa et monumenta tradita mihi a sacerdotibus sedulo conservo.
Sida 67 - Some among them, whom I conversed withal, admitted an intellectual, or incorporeal being, but only as governor and director, not as the author of nature ; nay, they pretended, that it is an effect of nature produced by In and Jo, — heaven and earth, one active, the other passive ; one the principle of generation, the other of corruption : after the same manner, also, they explained some other active powers of nature to be spiritual beings.
Sida 145 - Abbassides, he completed the designs of his grandfather, and invited the muses from their ancient seats. His ambassadors at Constantinople, his agents in Armenia, Syria, and Egypt, collected the volumes of Grecian science at his command they were translated by the most skilful interpreters into the Arabic language: his subjects were exhorted assiduously to peruse these instructive writings; and the successor of Mahomet assisted with pleasure and modesty at the assemblies and disputations of the learned.
Sida 141 - Hence we are exhorted to be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.