Phidias
Phidias, a late nineteenth-century French art history book by Maxime Collignon, published in Paris by J. Rouam in 1886 for readers of Greek art and its scholarship. Its plates are halftone photographs of Greek sculpture, mostly Parthenon reliefs, showing draped figures in procession, a horse being led, and reclining seated gods. A designer might take their shallow relief depth, layered drapery folds, and classical frieze compositions as references for ornament or pattern.
