Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 145
VIII SCULPTURE: MATERIAL, SPACE, COLOURING 123 of explorers to reconstitute the whole composition on more free and pleasing lines.1 Next in time come the pediments of Olympia ; and shortly after them we reach in the pediments of the Parthenon the acme of pedimental composition. Here instead of an… … 6 Fig. 26. rhythm. In the east pediment, for example, we have on the extreme left two female figures seated together, probably Demeter and Persephone, with Dionysus seated beyond them, and turned towards the corner. On the extreme right, to bal- ance these three figures, we have the so-called three…
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