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Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Plate 50. The Ram Head. &c. NATURAL FORMS. 79
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The Horae Head, &c. Plate 51. 80 Heads of Various Animals. — The Eaj^le, Plate 51. The Horse Head, &c. 1. Horse head, Parthenon, Athens. 2. Horse head, Assyrian basrelief, British Museuiii.o — 4. Antique Horse head. 5. Horse head. Modern, German. 6. Head of a hunting Dog, \ 7. Head of a Fox, I , _ , , . ^ _.„ . 8. Head of a Boar, ^^ Hahenscbad»^n, of Munchen. 9. Head of an Ox, i The Eagle. (Plates 52—54.) Like the lion among quadrupeds, the Eagle (Aquila, Falcofulvus) is the most important, representative of the feathered tribes.His size and strength, his majestic flight, his keen vision, distinguishhim above all other birds. He has been used in decorative art sincethe earliest times, e. g. in the Persian, Assyrian, and Egyptian styles. With the Greeks: he was the companion of Zeus, whose thunder-bolts he keeps and guards; he carried off Ganymede on his wings.The Romans used him in the apotheoses of their emperors; andchose him for the standards of their legions. Napo

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