10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMPAESTIC»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
empaestic,. empestic. (em-pes'tik),. a. [Also,. less prop., empaistic; < Gr.
ifnraiaTtnii, so. Tixyn, the art of embossing, < e/iiraioTor, struck in, embossed, <
ijinakiv, strike in, stamp, emboss, < iv, in, + irakiv, strike. Cf. anapest.} Stamped,
embossed ...
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A history of all nations from the earliest times: being a ...
... overland from the Caucasus through the intervention of the Shasu, must, in the
present state of our knowledge on the subject, remain a matter of pure
speculation. The original method of manipulating bronze was by incrustation or
empaestic ...
3
A History of All Nations
... from the Caucasus through the intervention of the Shasu, must, in the present
state of our knowledge on the subject, remain a matter of pure speculation. The
original method of manipulating bronze was by incrustation or empaestic ; that is,
...
Ferdinand Justi, Sara Yorke Stevenson, Morris Jastrow, 1905
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Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an ...
This kind of work was called by the ancients Empaestic. Next in order, as an
excellent example of the developed art of the Etrurians, may be mentioned a
statuette of Mars, found in the Lake of Monte Falterona in Tuscany (Case 71).
Among the ...
Gustav Friedrich Waagen, 1857
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The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the ...
They are rudely carved and bear some indications of a Mesopptamian
conception of animal life, with a peculiarity of technique that allies them with the
bas-reliefs or empaestic metal-work by which Phoenician sculpture was almost
exclusively ...
Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, 1912
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Egypt and western Asia in antiquity
... from the Caucasus through the intervention of the Shasu, must, in the present
state of our knowledge on the subject, remain a matter of pure speculation. The
original method of manipulating bronze was by incrustation or empaestic ; that ...
Ferdinand Justi, Sara Yorke Stevenson, Morris Jastrow, 1905
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American journal of archaeology
Semper1 called attention to the empaestic character of the reliefs, and his
remarks have often been repeated. In the Report of the Investigation at Assos we
find (p. 121) : " Not only the detailed forms of the decoration of the temple of
Assos, but ...
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Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the ...
This kind of work was called by the ancients Empaestic. Next in order, as an
excellent example of the developed art of the Etrurians, may be mentioned a
statuette of Mars, found in the Lake of Monte Falterona in Tuscany (Case 71).
Among the ...
Gustav Friedrich Waagen, 1857
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Ancient art and its remains: or, A manual of the archaeology ...
Moreover, embossed silver plates with ornaments of gold riveted on them (
therefore works of the empaestic art, §. 59), which represent an equestrian fight,
and a battle of wild beasts, now in the British Museum. Millingen, Un. Mon. ii, 14.
Micali ...
Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, 1852
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History of Sculpture: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
The whole artistic treatment, however, reminds us, in the bluntness of the forms,
which are but slightly in relief, of the empaestic works, with which buildings and
utensils were covered in the East and in early Greek art. Figs. 32 and 33. Metope
...
