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HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY.
tivc styles of statues and busts, can be equally applied to bas-reliefs.
Bas-reliefs were generally used for the purpose of adorning temples,
altars, the bases of statues, and also sarcophagi and tombs. Jn general,
some well-known myth of a god, or hero, was traced on them.
MEZZO-lilLIEVO.
The finest existing examples of alto-rilievo are those metopes which
adorned the temple of the Parthenon. As they were destined to
receive the open light, they were executed in bolder relief, to insure
the masses of shadow which make them conspicuous. They repre-
sent the contests between the Centaurs and the Athenians.
HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY.
tivc styles of statues and busts, can be equally applied to bas-reliefs.
Bas-reliefs were generally used for the purpose of adorning temples,
altars, the bases of statues, and also sarcophagi and tombs. Jn general,
some well-known myth of a god, or hero, was traced on them.
MEZZO-lilLIEVO.
The finest existing examples of alto-rilievo are those metopes which
adorned the temple of the Parthenon. As they were destined to
receive the open light, they were executed in bolder relief, to insure
the masses of shadow which make them conspicuous. They repre-
sent the contests between the Centaurs and the Athenians.