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Ancient Greek Sculpture: Ancient Greek Sculptors, Ancient Greek Sculptures, Collections of Classical Sculpture, Myron, Praxiteles, Phidias

Ancient Greek Sculpture: Ancient Greek Sculptors, Ancient Greek Sculptures, Collections of Classical Sculpture, Myron, Praxiteles, Phidias

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ISBN10: 115639175X
ISBN13: 9781156391754
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.13 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Ancient Greek sculptors, Ancient Greek sculptures, Collections of classical sculpture, Myron, Praxiteles, Phidias, Ageladas, Alcamenes, Herma, Antenor, Bupalus, Agoracritus, Engraved gem, Hardstone carving, Serpent Column, Polykleitos, Chryselephantine sculpture, Lysippos, Callimachus, Olympia Master, Berlin Foundry Cup, Aristocles, Pythagoras, Hercules of the Forum Boarium, Cephisodotus the Elder, Horses of Saint Mark, Alcon, Henry Blundell, Scopas, Phradmon, Timotheus, Marathon Boy, Arundel marbles, Hepatizon, Kresilas, Heroic nudity, Acestor, Metope, Eunicus, Agasias, son of Dositheus, Kritios, Leochares, Clearchus of Rhegium, Theodorus of Samos, Ptolichus, Alexis, Rampin Rider, Naiskos, Boethus, Acrolith, Hegias of Athens, Meniskos, Archermus, Aetion, Pyrrhus of Athens, Calamis, Dipoenus and Scyllis, Butades, Paeonius, Onatas, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, Melian reliefs, Euphranor, Cephisodotus the Younger, Glyptotheque, Alypus, Lysus, Bathycles of Magnesia, Polykleitos the Younger, Eutychides, Aleuas, Demetrius of Alopece, Smilis, The Autostephanoumenos, Herophon, Endoeus, Berenice Venus, Canachus, Cleon, Polycles, Rhoecus, Silanion, Thrasymedes, Micon, Ctesicles, Glaucias of Aegina, Strongylion, Machatas, Lysistratus, Antiphanes of Argos, Lycius, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Adelaide, Moscophoros, Sthennis, Entochus. Excerpt: An engraved gem is a small gemstone, usually semi-precious, that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face. The engraving of gemstones was a major luxury art form in the ancient world, and an important one in some later periods. Strictly speaking, engraving means carving in intaglio, with the design cut into the flat background of the stone, but relief carvings, with the design projecting out of the background as in ...