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Download or read book Antique Gems and Rings Volume 1 written by Charles William King and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Antique Gems and Rings written by Charles William King and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...or favourite, were doubtless smashed to atoms upon the death or downfall of the originals; gem-portraits sharing the fate of their colossal brethren in bronze or marble, when, the day of retribution coming, Descendunt statute restiinque sequuntur. I have met with numerous examples, to all appearance, of this execution done in effigy; for instance, a Commodus with his titles--an important piece in red jasper--evidently fractured intentionally; a Caligula, also with a legend; and the fine Caracalla of the British Museum (Townley Gems), t In conclusion, to return to certain particulars but slightly noticed in the foregoing sections, though of considerable weight in the distinguishing of the antique from modern imitations. Firstly, it is.an invariable rule that all antique designs are marked by an extreme simplicity. Earely does the composition include more than two figures, or if others be introduced, they are treated as mere accessories, and only indicated in outline. To this branch of art Horace's maxim can be applied with but slight variation: --This strange head-covering is first assumed on the coinago of Egypt, by Cleopatra Selene, whose son, Ptolemy Alexander, also figures in the same. It is probable that he takes in this way the character of the Libyan Hercules, as his Macedonian rivals did of the lion-clad Theban demi-god. To see in this singular ornament nothing deeper than a commemoration of his strength in war elephants (the usual explanation) is simply absurd. t About the time of Severus a fashion came in of adding appropriate mottoes to ladies' portraits, doubtless gages d'amour. A Blacas nicolo with a male bust on obverse, a female on reverse, has the field round the latter filled with monograms, out of...
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