Brown, William Norman · London, Scott, Greenwood & Son; New York, D. Van Nostrand Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 126
Painting and Decorating It was from the quarries of Pentelicus that the material was procured with which Ik linos, circa 455 B.C., erected near the Acropolis of ancient Athens that magnificent temple to the virgin goddess Pallas Athene, the tutelary deity of Athens, which we call the Parthenon. And… … Fig. 63. — Bifurcation. limestone — perhaps the very finest of the marbles. But, excellent as pentelic is for the purpose of the sculptor or the architect, it has no decorative value, as it is not veined, and hence the decorator never imitates it. Cipolino. — The fine marble known by its Italian…
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