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1. He could see that the house was more imposing in appearance than the room it really contained, the tall and detailed arches faced with reliefs in a thulitlanth motif graced the end panes, but they were used only to make high ceilings in most rooms
2. The ceiling in the entrance hall was about three storeys high and the walls were covered in reliefs depicting events from Babylon’s history
3. The reliefs on the walls are out of this world, and I love the paved roads and water canals
4. The wooden partitions contained carved reliefs depicting various scenes from everyday life
5. Then I stood in a long white marble hall, with great pillars and vaulted ceilings, with reliefs of men and women locked in combat, ferocious scenes of violence that shifted under my vision
6. High ceilings still bore traces of the hand painted reliefs of a century before, and two enormous floor-to-ceiling bay windows gave an aura of antique opulence
7. started on the wall reliefs and Holkey took the panels
8. "Father is--pleased?" echoed Ingeborg, quite awe-struck by the amount and quality of these reliefs
9. There were Mayan symbols carved into stone reliefs around the doors
10. After the publication of Augustine's predestinarian theology, Christendom sank paralyzed on the fiery shores of his eternal hell; the gloomy priesthood ruled the new Gothic world, and the doctrines of Purgatory and Mariolatry were invented as necessary reliefs for souls maddened with fear of eternal torments
11. Aside from that exemption, exemptions and reliefs for certain properties can be enjoyed by the beneficiaries, such as certain business properties and agricultural properties, as well as exemptions for dwelling-houses
12. Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort--they are reliefs of pain
13. RELIEFS FROM THE ACROPOLIS TO
14. Waldstein in a recent peripatetic lecture suggested a new point of view in the connection between these reliefs and Greek vase-paintings
15. The first question which presents itself in the present consideration is: Why should these pedimental groups follow vase paintings? We might say that in vases we have practically the first products of Greek art; and further we might show resemblances, more or less material, between these archaic reliefs and vase pictures
16. Further we find reliefs in terracotta pierced with nail-holes and evidently intended for the covering of various wooden objects; sometimes, it is safe to say, for wooden sarcophagi
17. Here appears clearly the connection that these works may have had with the later reliefs in marble
18. Can we reasonably believe that the Hydra and Triton pediments, standing side by side on the Acropolis, so close to each other in time and in technic, owe their origin to entirely different motives, merely for the reason that the figures of one stand further out from the background than those of the other? Is it not easier to suppose that the higher reliefs, as they follow the older low reliefs in time, are developed from them, than to assume that just at the dividing-line a new principle came into operation?
19. supra), for example, assumes that these two pediments in low relief are simply exceptions to the general rule, accounting for them by the fact that it was difficult to work out high reliefs from the poros stone of which they were made
20. He seems to forget that the higher reliefs from the Acropolis are of the same poros
21. The poros stone of the reliefs is so soft that it could easily be worked with a knife; so incised lines are constantly used, and regular geometrical designs traced
22. It is very noticeable that these reliefs, unlike the others which in general furnish the closest analogies, the metopes of the temple at Selinous and the pediment of the Megarian Treasury at Olympia, have the ground unpainted
23. To give a local habitation to the class of pottery which most nearly influenced the artist of these reliefs, is not easy
24. Strange monsters of all kinds are represented there; while in the reliefs before us a goodly number of such monsters are translated to Greek soil
25. " 70 It is the aim of this paper to show, that the earliest publications of the sculptured reliefs on this monument have given a faulty representation of them, owing to the transposition of two sets of figures; that this mistake has been repeated in most subsequent publications down to our day; that inferences deduced therefrom have in so far been vitiated; and that new instructive facts concerning Greek composition in sculpture can be derived from a corrected rendering of the original
26. Confining our attention to the sculptures of the frieze, we will examine certain inaccuracies of detail which have hitherto prevailed in the treatment of this important landmark in the history of decorative reliefs of the fourth century
27. 82 To Stuart and Revett 83 is due the credit of being the first to recognize in these reliefs the story of Dionysos and the pirates, which is told first in the Homeric Hymn to Dionysos
28. Near by a Christian sarcophagus was found with reliefs of Christ giving the law, Moses striking the rock and other subjects
29. de Sarzec has reconstructed from some fragments a series of reliefs relating to King Ur-Nina, the ancestor of King E-anna-du, who is commemorated in the stele of the vultures
30. 14) a comparative study on an engraved gold ring found at Mycenæ and a relief in the Louvre which belongs to the series of Hittite reliefs and was found at Kharpout, in the Upper Euphrates region on the frontier of Armenia and Cappadocia
