DOI Heft:
No. 36 (March, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Mr. Fulleylove's water-colour drawings of greek architecture and landscape
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0095
Mr. Fulleylove's Drawings
Lysicrates, erected as a pedestal for a votive tripod rounding that sacred spot. Instead of comment-
of bronze dedicated to Dionysos. It was formerly ing upon or attempting to describe the water
built into the walls of a Capuchin monastery, and colour drawings we prefer to give a specimen of a
used as a book closet. Only recently has the pencil sketch, which shows part of the mediaeval
ground about it been lowered to the original level, town of Mistra, with a view over the rich valley of
so that it can now be seen, to its whole extent, the Eurotas including part of the site of ancient
relieved against the wall of the Acropolis, as in the Sparta. Mistra has often been described as one of
drawing. It should perhaps be mentioned that the most romantically situated places in Europe,
the total height of this very early specimen of the and no single drawing could give any adequate
Corinthian order of architecture is about 34 feet, impression of the astonishing beauty of its posi-
and that, with the exception of the quadrangular tion. It contains a number of half-ruined churches,
basement, it is made of Pentelic marble. whose walls are covered with noble paintings,
We must not leave our readers to suppose that lovely even in their present state of decay. One
Mr. Fulleylove's studies were confined to the of the finest churches is seen in the upper part of
neighbourhood of Athens. Not only are all the the sketch, and a water-colour drawing of its porch
most famous places in the Peloponnesus, from is to be included in the exhibition in Bond Street
Corinth down to Kalamata, represented in his to which we have already referred,
recent work, but also Delphi and the scenery sur- We give two illustrations, reproduced from
Mr. Fulleylove's water-
colours. The first of these,
the Acropolis from the
Pnyx, is singularly fortu-
nate in its point of view,
both in relation to the
composition of the picture,
and also in the association
of two such supremely in-
teresting subjects as the
western aspect of the Acro-
polis and the place from
which the orators addressed
the Athenian people when
assembled in their " eccle-
sia." The squared mass
of rock in the foreground,
with rows of steps beside
it, is the so-called Bema
(altar) of the Pnyx; and
the orator, standing at the
base of it facing the people,
had on his right hand the
grand prospect of the Acro-
polis which we see before
us in the drawing, with the
splendid gateway of the
Propylsea, the temple of
Nike, and the great temple
of Athene, all built of the
t ■, - •< i „ finest Pentelic marble, in
full view. In the drawing
the straight lines of the
Bema and the adjacent
steps cut out of the live
rock are very valuable as a
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Lysicrates, erected as a pedestal for a votive tripod rounding that sacred spot. Instead of comment-
of bronze dedicated to Dionysos. It was formerly ing upon or attempting to describe the water
built into the walls of a Capuchin monastery, and colour drawings we prefer to give a specimen of a
used as a book closet. Only recently has the pencil sketch, which shows part of the mediaeval
ground about it been lowered to the original level, town of Mistra, with a view over the rich valley of
so that it can now be seen, to its whole extent, the Eurotas including part of the site of ancient
relieved against the wall of the Acropolis, as in the Sparta. Mistra has often been described as one of
drawing. It should perhaps be mentioned that the most romantically situated places in Europe,
the total height of this very early specimen of the and no single drawing could give any adequate
Corinthian order of architecture is about 34 feet, impression of the astonishing beauty of its posi-
and that, with the exception of the quadrangular tion. It contains a number of half-ruined churches,
basement, it is made of Pentelic marble. whose walls are covered with noble paintings,
We must not leave our readers to suppose that lovely even in their present state of decay. One
Mr. Fulleylove's studies were confined to the of the finest churches is seen in the upper part of
neighbourhood of Athens. Not only are all the the sketch, and a water-colour drawing of its porch
most famous places in the Peloponnesus, from is to be included in the exhibition in Bond Street
Corinth down to Kalamata, represented in his to which we have already referred,
recent work, but also Delphi and the scenery sur- We give two illustrations, reproduced from
Mr. Fulleylove's water-
colours. The first of these,
the Acropolis from the
Pnyx, is singularly fortu-
nate in its point of view,
both in relation to the
composition of the picture,
and also in the association
of two such supremely in-
teresting subjects as the
western aspect of the Acro-
polis and the place from
which the orators addressed
the Athenian people when
assembled in their " eccle-
sia." The squared mass
of rock in the foreground,
with rows of steps beside
it, is the so-called Bema
(altar) of the Pnyx; and
the orator, standing at the
base of it facing the people,
had on his right hand the
grand prospect of the Acro-
polis which we see before
us in the drawing, with the
splendid gateway of the
Propylsea, the temple of
Nike, and the great temple
of Athene, all built of the
t ■, - •< i „ finest Pentelic marble, in
full view. In the drawing
the straight lines of the
Bema and the adjacent
steps cut out of the live
rock are very valuable as a
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