Contributions to the literature of the fine arts (1870)
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865, author, Ker, H. Bellenden (Henry Bellenden), 1785?-1871, writer of preface · London : John Murray · leaf 134
114 BASSO-RILIEVO. which the sculptors thus wisely confined themselves. The objections which compelled this limitation being however entirely obviated in basso-rilievo, by the power of suppressing at pleasure the shadows within the contour, we find the fullest advantage taken of the latitude which… … A better example cannot be referred to than the flat rilievi already mentioned from the cella of the Parthenon. The subject represents the Panathenaic procession, and although no perspective diminution is admitted, several equestrian figures are some- times partly relieved one upon the other. The’…
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