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proper point of view, from time to time as the
work advanced.1

Th ; Halicarnassian marbles exhibit other instances
of the care and judgment exercised by the ancients
in the production of their works of art. Fearful
that the outline would not be clearly recognizable
at so great an altitude, the artist has indented this
outline, so as to produce a clear line, even on the
light side. Another instance of the like care and
judgment conspicuous in these marbles is evinced
in their peculiarity of composition. In the Par-
thenon frieze, the Phigalian sculptures and others,
the subjects are continuous, whether in individual
procession or in mingled grouping, but in these
bas-reliefs the composition is in marked lines.
Three figures perhaps form a triangle. On either

Extended Group - -- -- ---- - Extended Group

Simple Group. Simple Group.

Simple Group.
Extended Group

side are two figures, the lines of which are parallel
with the sides of the triangle, thus forming an
extended group. Beyond these are inverted tri-

1 See this subject insisted upon by M. Beule in an article on
the Pediments of the Parthenon in the Revue Arclieologique, vol.
for 1854-5.

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