In the Louvre is an antique bronze which has been thought to represent one of the Indians of Mela, and also to be a good reproduction of the features of the North American Indian (Longpérier, Notice des bronzes antiques, etc.
The fact was, the steward had come across the bargain, but had not sufficient spare cash to buy, so he called in the aid of the captain, and they speculated in the bronzes as partners.
To our mind the vast majority of ancient bronzes must have been made from copper and tin mined and smelted independently.
The walls were covered with Eastern hangings, tables of lacquer stood about filled with squat bronzes and gemlike ivory carvings.
It was not Western magnificence, but Oriental; hangings of the richest Eastern stuffs, rugs, and dark gleams of bronzes and dull lights of brass, and the sheen of silken embroideries.
The beautiful old bronzes are of several kinds--gold and silver, and many shades of green and brown.
Old bronzes are much sought after by collectors, the best dating from the seventeenth century.
Illustration: Lacquer Work] Buddhist temples are adorned with wonderful carving and lacquer work, and contain bronzes and golden Buddhas.
As early as the seventh century fine bronzes were cast at Nara, and over a hundred altar-pieces of that period are still in existence in Japan.
Body o' me, but I worked that winter upon the gates and the bronzes for the tomb as I'd never worked before!
Then I remembered the solemn chapel roof and the bronzes about the stately tomb he'd lie in, and--d'ye see?
Wilson then proceeds to give the results of analyses of ancient bronzes discovered in Europe, America, and elsewhere, contained in the accompanying tables.
Assyrian sculptures and upon the archaic bronzes and vases of Greece and Central Italy.
Homer's mention of vessels and utensils from Sidon, and the discovery of Phoenician bronzes in the ruins of Nineveh, prove a most ancient and extended trade in objects formed of that metal.
But though it was impossible in the theatre of Herculaneum to gain any idea of its size or richness, I remembered there the magnificent bronzes which had been found in it, and did a hasty reverence to the place.
Pierre might want to take from them some of the plate and bronzes that were in the drawer, moved threateningly toward him.
Even in the early bronzes the execution is free, large, and quite without the dry particularity that might have been expected from a method the most exacting and specific possible.
He did indeed refrain from sending his bronzes to the Salon and he did act as his own salesman, and the result was the incurrence of a heavy debt.
If we should examine the exceptionally fine collection of Barye bronzesbelonging to the late Mr. Cyrus J.
It is therefore inadvisable to attempt at this date the collection of Barye's bronzes without special knowledge or advice.
In inlayingbronzes they generally hollow out and somewhat undercut the design, into which the ornamenting metal, usually in the form of wire, is laid and hammered over.
In the inlaying of their fine bronzesthey use principally gold and silver, but for large articles and also for common cast hollow ware commoner metals and alloys are employed.
Some Celtic bronzes show a wolf swallowing a man who offers no resistance, probably because he is dead.
Some of the weapon bronzes made by the ancients contain traces of phosphorus, an element as important in hard bronze as carbon is in steel.
The bronzes contained traces and up to one-fourth per cent.
Experience had everywhere taught them that copper and bronzes poor in tin are too soft, while bronzes with an excess of tin could not be used for weapons and tools on account of being too brittle.
This cheap material was often added in very considerable quantity until they learned that leaden bronzes did not have a fine color either while fresh and clean, or when old and covered with patina.
Bronzes with very little tin in them are but little affected by chilling and hammering (Riche).
Zinc ores frequently occur on copper beds, and yet zinc is rarely found in quantity worth mentioning in the bronzes of the ancients.
Small quantities of iron, nickel, and cobalt are found for well known reasons in nearly all bronzes as harmless impurities.
Analyses of antique bronzes give us some idea of their art of mixing and coloring.
All of them were scratched by fluorspar; there were no hard bronzes among them.
This injures the quality of the alloy, and discloses the fact that such bronzes were not made from pure oxide ores, but from those containing sulphur pyrites.
At the time when such bronzes were produced the mines had probably reached a considerable depth.
These facts, as well as the circumstance that we possess antiquebronzes of extraordinary hardness, induced me, with the consent of Baron Sacken, to test the hardness of the bronze weapons in the Vienna Cabinet of Antiquities.
Alloys that are hard already, such asbronzes rich in tin and phosphorus, become too brittle and useless by repeated hammering.
That is one of the reasons why all the marbles and bronzes that we have in Italy are marred and injured.
What marbles and bronzes of Rodin stolen from Paris!
To get a better idea of what I'm trying to drive at, just take a trip up through Central Park the next time you are in New York and pause a while before those bronzes of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns which stand on the Mall.
One of the most striking of the water-colors shows a great snake swallowing an antelope, whose head is partly engulfed, and it is almost exactly the same as one of the bronzes from the Walters collection.
Not only bronzes and jades but also pottery and sculpture bear witness to the flourishing art of this period.
Opposite the gallery of bronzes is that allotted to the marbles, among which a beautiful Venus stands prominently forth.
The gallery of greatbronzes is considered the first in the world, for here we find united the finest works of ancient times.
There are infinite possibilities in the use of stencil design without counting the introduction of gold and silver, and bronzes of various iridescent hues which are more suitable for rooms of general use than for bedrooms.
A group of late bronzes were found at one point in the south of the great enclosure.
The bronzes produced in the little shops scattered over Japan give play to the artistic taste which one finds here.
Russia's bronzes are most excellent, and her stores exhibit a large assortment of furs.
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