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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f study and investigation, that itis to be hoped its discoverer will one day present us withsuch an account of its character and construction, and suchaccurate drawings of its sculpture and ornaments, as shall docredit at once to the monument and himself. Edward Falkener. * Speaking of this monument, Professor Gerhard says— These sculptures arethe most valuable evidences of a style of art in Asia Minor of the Ionic race, whichwe can only attribute to the most perfect period of Greek sculpture (Archaol. Zeitung.i. 353); and Professor Welcker, in his additions to Mullers Ancient Art and itsRemains, speaks of its masterly friezes as belonging to the period of thePhygalian sculptures, and of its statues as surpassing even the Maenads of Scopasin boldness and lightness of representation. t See ante, p. 154. \ They were brought over to Paris by the French government at great expense,and have since been allowed to lie neglected in the court of the Louvre, THE IONIC E BRITISH IGED BY E, FAL
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