Shelley

Greek sculpture with story and song.with 110 illustrations From Darkness To Dawn -- The Gods And Their Makers -- The Earliest Greek Temples -- Archaic Reliefs -- Sculpture Of The Transition Period -- The Parthenon -- The Successors Of Pheidiasattic Reliefs -- The Apotheosis Of Beauty -- Praxiteles -- Contemporaries Of Scopas -- Lysippus -- The Twilight Of The Gods -- Schools Of Pergamum And Rhodes -- Last Years Before The Christian Era -- Table Of Sculptures

1898 · 009767 — J.M. Dent & Co. 29 & 30 Bedford Street W.C. London Richard Clay & Sons London and Bungay1898 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 2 322 pages frontispiece illustrations plates 22 cm OCLC 3053789 ; red worn cloth with gold lettering and designs; top edge gilt ; untrimmed ; slight knock ; Contents: From Darkness To Dawn - The Gods And Their Makers - The Earliest Greek Temples -- Archaic Reliefs -- Sculpture Of The Transition Period -- The Parthenon -- The Successors Of Pheidiasattic Reliefs -- The Apotheosis Of Beauty -- Praxiteles -- Contemporaries Of Scopas -- Lysippus -- The Twilight Of The Gods -- Schools Of Pergamum And Rhodes -- Last Years Before The Christian Era -- Table Of Sculptures ; Title within ornamental border List of sculptures: p. 307-312 List of sculptors: p. 313-314 ; Albinia Lucy Wherry was a British nurse and author known for her works on biography art and folklore. She was the oldest daughter of Robert Needham Cust and his wife Maria Hobart and was born at Langdown House Hampshire the Hobart family home from 1849. Two months later her barrister father set off for British India then torn by rebellion where he would make a reputation as a colonial administrator and linguist. She had two sisters and two brothers; her mother died in 1864 a week after giving birth to a daughter. Her father returned from India; when back there in a senior administrative position he took another wife Emma Carlyon who died in childbirth in 1867. He left India and married again in 1868. Wherry's relationship with her father was intense difficult and marred by grudges held. There was a serious break after her marriage. In 1881 Wherry married the surgeon George Edward Wherry. Wherry also trained as a nurse at Leicester Infirmary. During World War I Wherry was stationed in Paris in the Women's Emergency Canteen at the Gare du Nord where she supported Allied forces from 1915 to 1918. Wherry is buried in St John the Baptist Churchyard. Her collected correspondence is archived by the University of Florida. --Wikipedia ; poem excerpt from "prince Lucifer" by Alfred Austin then Poet Laureate; includes the poems "In the Golden Age" and "The Apotheosis of Beauty" by Percy Bysshe Shelley and a selection from the poem "Medea in Athens" by Augusta Davies Webster; excerpt from the poem "The Earthly Paradise" by William Morris ; "The Twilight of the Gods - The Dead Pan" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning selections of poems by Matthew Arnold Christina Rossetti Peake Shirley Fletcher Keats Milton Robert Browning William Shakespeare Thomas Haywood Rowley Longfellow R. N. Cust Byron Lyly ; black and white photos by Strand Co. ; numerous line illustrations by Meisenbach Riffart. "Riffarth & Cie. Meisenbach was a German photographic printing company operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They specialized in printing high-quality illustrations for newspapers magazines and books using advanced techniques like photogravure and halftone. Their work is characterized by sharp detail and a focus on capturing the beauty of the built environment as seen in their images of factories cityscapes and landscapes. The company's work is considered a significant example of the development of photographic reproduction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." ; sculptors discussed include Agasias Ageladas Agesander Agoracritus Alcamenes Alxenor Amphicrates Androsthenes Antenor Angelion Antigonus Apelles Arcesilius Archelaus Archermus Aristander Aristocles of Sicyon Athenodorus Bathycles of Magnesia Boedas Boethus Bryaxis Butades Calamis Callimachus Callon Canachus Cephisodotus elder and younger Chaerestratus Chares of Lindus Cherisphron Clearchus Colotes Cresilas Critius Daedalus Daedalus of Bythynia Daedalus son of Patrocles Daippus Damophon of Messene Demetrius of Alopece Dipoenus Dorycleidas Endoeus Epigones Euphranor Eupolemus Eutychides Hagias Ictinus Isogones Leochares Libon Lycius Lysippus Lysistratus Menaichmus Menelaus Metagenes Micciades Myron Naucydes etc; VG <br/> <br/> J.M. Dent & Co., 29 & 30 Bedford Street, W.C. London, [Richard Clay & Sons, London and Bungay],1898 hardcover