 Here you see a quadruped with the tail of a serpent; there a fish with the head of a quadruped. There an animal suggests a horse in front and half a goat behind; here a horned beast exhibits the rear part of a horse.  Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture - Page xxxiiby Charles Callahan Perkins - 1882 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Callahan Perkins - Sculptors - 1868 - 394 pages
...vero Qnando rcsurgit, avis quando supcrna petit.' Vide Ezckicl i. 10, and Revolution iv. 7. c 2 taurs, and semi-men, and spotted tigers, and fighting soldiers,...with horns and a horse's body. The variety of form is so great everywhere that marbles are more pleasant reading than manuseripts, and the whole day is spent... | |
 | Archaeology - 1888 - 354 pages
...cloisters before the reading monks ? See what deformed beauty and what beautiful deformity. Why are unclean monkeys and savage lions, and monstrous centaurs,...with horns and a horse's body. The variety of form is so great everywhere that marbles are more pleasant reading than manuscripts, and the whole day is spent... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1894 - 1044 pages
...can see under one head many bodies, and again on one lx>dy many heads. Here a quadruped with the end of a serpent ; there a fish with the head of a quadruped. Here a beast with the forepart like a horse, and the hind like a goat ; there a horned animal, half-horse. So many... | |
 | Ann Livermore - Art - 1988 - 190 pages
...you beheld several bodies beneath one head? There again several heads upon one body? Have you seen a quadruped with the tail of a serpent? There a fish with the head of a quadruped? There an animal suggests a horse in front and half a goat behind; here a horned beast exhibits the... | |
 | Bruce Cole, Adelheid M. Gealt - Art - 1991 - 374 pages
...unclean monkeys, those fierce lions, those monstrous centaurs, those semi-human beings. Here you see a quadruped with the tail of a serpent, there a fish with the head of a goat. In short there appears on all sides so rich and amazing a variety of forms that it is more delightful... | |
 | John R. Sommerfeldt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 204 pages
...these trumpeting hunters? You see one head with many bodies and one body with many heads. Here we see a quadruped with the tail of a serpent, there a fish with the head of a quadruped. There a beast that is horse in front and goat behind; here an animal with horns and the rear of a horse.... | |
 | Hugh Honour, John Fleming - Art - 2005 - 996 pages
...Here you behold several bodies beneath one head: there again several heads upon one body. Here you see a quadruped with the tail of a serpent; there a fish with the head of a quadruped. There an animal suggests a horse in front and half a goat behind; here a horned beast exhibits the... | |
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