Identifier: berlinenvirons00karl (find matches)
Title: Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dow, 316, 317. Greek portrait-heads. — Comp. 12: 1542. Small bronze torso of Hypnos: 509. Torso of ayouth (copy of a Greek work of the 5th cent.): by the window. 296.Sophocles, *297. Euripides.—The Greek Cabinet, entered from thiscompartment, contains Bronzes from Boscweale near Pompeii(ornaments from abed, vases, etc.) and objects discovered nXPrienein Asia Minor, among which we may notice the terracotta figure ofa boy extracting a thorn (to the left) and a small head of Alexander(by the windows. — Comp. 11: 1051. Greek marble throne; 83. De-meter, Roman copy of a 5th cent. Greek work; adjacent, Femaledraped statue, revealing affinity to the pediment-figures of the Par-thenon; by the window, *1455. Head of Anacreon, after Cresilas.On the opposite wall, 925. Medea and the daughters of Pelias (copyof an Attic relief; 5th cent.); 485. Thorn-extractor. West Room, containing Greek original works. Comp. 10: -3. Torsoof a draped female figure in bronze, found at Cyzicus (4th cent.); i
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O 10 20 30 80 90 Old Museum, First FloorGallery of Antique Sculptures Antique Sculptures. BERLIN. Section 3. 75 -2. Boy praying (or, perhaps, playing at ball), a Greek bronze,perhaps of the school of Lysippus, or of the 3rd or 2nd cent. B.C.,purchased by Frederick II. for 5000 talers; the arms were restoredin France in the 17th cent, and it is therefore uncertain whether thepresent intention is the same as the original; **1. Bronze torsoof a youth, probably Apollo, found near Eleusis (end of 5th cent.);opposite, 1482. Tomb-relie fof a girl, a Greek work of the firsthalf of the 5th cent.; 1492. Attic tomb-relief, surmounted by amourning Siren (end of 5th cent.).— Comp. 9: Right, *738, *739.Two large Attic, tomb-reliefs of Thraseas and Lysistrate (early4th cent.), in excellent preservation; left, 1473. Archaic tomb-relief;498, 499. Figures of two mourning maidservants, from an Attictomb; *740. Fragment of the tomb of Nikarete, 743 (opposite),Female head from Eretria (both of the 4th c

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