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Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t a later period that he received thePhrygian garb. Perseus.Perseus appears very like Hermes in configuration and costume.He is frequently represented with talaria, and sometimes holds thehead of Medusa in his hand. 200 HANDBOOK OF ABCHJE0L0QT. The Dioscuri.—Castor.—Pollux. To the Dioscuri, who always retained very much of their divinenature, belong a perfectly unblemished youthful beauty, an equallyslender and powerful shape, and, as an almost never-failing attribute,the half-oval form of the hat, or at least hair lying close at the backof the head, but projecting in thick curls around the forehead andtemples. The distinction between Polydeuces the boxer, and Castor,in his equestrian costume, is only to be found where they arerepresented in heroic circumstances, not wThere they are exhibitedas objects of worship, as the Athenian Anakes and as genii of lightin its rising and setting. The most celebrated statues of thesehorse-tamers are the two on the Quirinal Hill at Rome ; though
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CASTOR MANAGING A HORSE. styled the works of Phidias and Praxiteles, they are supposed tohave been executed at Rome, probably after the time of Augustus,from Greek originals; they are of colossal proportions, being 18 feethigh. Statues :— Castor and Pollux, Quirinal Hill, Rome. BAS-RELIEFS. 201 BAS-KELIEFS. Bas-reliefs are works of sculpture in which the objects are notisolated, but are attached to a background, or to a plane surface, onwhich sometimes the sculptured figures were placed, or as is moregenerally the case, the entire background and figures were formedof the same material. The term alto-rilievo is used when the figuresseem almost entirely detached from the background: mezzo-rilievowhen the figure projects from the background by about a half.Basso-rilievo, or bas-relief, when the figures project slightly fromthe background, and seem, so to say, flattened on the background;but common use has given to all these works of sculpture the generalname of bas-reliefs, or basso-ri

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