READINGS IN ART.
P. 11, c. 1—“Glyptics,” glyp´tics. Carving on precious stones.
P. 11, c. 1—“Bas relief,” bä-re-leef´. “Michael Angelo,” me-kĕl an´ja-lo. (1474-1562). The Italian painter and sculptor.
P. 11, c. 2—“Lapidary,” lăp´i-da-ry. One who cuts, polishes, and engraves stones. “Vitreous,” vĭt´re-ous, glassy; “Ter´ra cot´ta;” “Chryselephantine,” chrys´el-e-phănt´ine; “To-reu´tic;” “Ar´ma-ture.”
P. 12, c. 1—“Galvano-plastique,” gal-vā´no-plăs-teek; “Băs´so-rē-liē´vo;” “Stiacciato,” stē-ät-chä´to; “Mezzo-relievo,” mĕd´zo-re-liē´vo; “Al´to-re-liē-vo;” “Ca-vo-re-liē´vo.”
P. 12, c. 1—“Renaissance,” rŭh-nā´sŏngs´. The awakening or new birth, that took place in architecture, literature, and the fine arts from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Men’s minds during the middle ages had been under the influence of the church. Freedom of thought and action became almost extinct. Reaction revived all branches of art and literature, producing the period called the “Renaissance.”
P. 12, c. 1—“Polycleitus,” pol´y-clei´tus. A Greek sculptor who lived about 430 B. C. His statues of men are said to have surpassed those of Phidias. The Spear Bearer was a statue so perfectly proportioned that it was called the canon or rule.
P. 12, c. 2—“Vitruvius Pollio,” vi-tru´vi-us pol´li-o. A Roman architect who served under Cæsar. His treatise on architecture is a compendium of Greek writers on the subject.
P. 12, c. 2—“Mem´phis.” Meaning the abode of the good one. Once the most magnificent city of Egypt, the capital of the kingdom, and residence of several Egyptian deities. It is only of late that its site has been known.
P. 12, c. 2—“Cheops,” kē´ops.
P. 12, c. 2—“Renan,” ree´nan. A French orientalist, author and critic.
P. 12, c. 2—“Mariette,” mä´re´[)et]´. French Egyptologist.
P. 12, c. 2—“Ghizeh,” jee´zeh, or gee´zeh. A village of Egypt three miles from Cairo. The three great pyramids are but five miles from Ghizeh.
P. 12, c. 2—“Amosis,” a-mo´sis; “A-mu´nothph;” “Thoth´mo-sis;” “Ni-to´cris.”
P. 13, c. 1—“Karnak,” kar´nak. A modern village of Egypt, in which has been found a portion of the ruins of Thebes.
P. 13, c. 1—“Mem´non.” A statue of a hero of the Trojan war. It is called musical because at sunrise a sound comes from it like the twang of a harp string. It has been conjectured that this tone was caused by the expansive effect of the sun’s rays upon the stone.
P. 13, c. 1 “Ram´ses;” “Tu´rin.”
P. 13, c. 1—“Osiris,” o-si´ris. One of the chief divinities of the Egyptians.
P. 13, c. 1—“Louvre,” loovr; “Abou Simbel,” â-boo-sim´bel; “Coptic,” cŏp´tic.
P. 13, c. 2—“Edfou,” ed´foo´; “Denderah,” den´der-äh.
P. 13, c. 2-“Hadrian,” ha´drĭ-an, or Adrian. (76-138.) Roman Emperor.
P. 13, c. 2—“Botta,” bot´ä; “Mo´sul.”
P. 14, c. 1—“Sarcophaguses,” sar-cŏph´a-gŭses. Literally the word means eating flesh, and was named from the peculiar kind of limestone used by the Greeks for making coffins which consumed the body in a short time. Now a coffin or tomb made from stone of any kind.
P. 14, c. 1—“Cambyses,” kam-bī´sēz. The second king of Persia, and probably the Ahasuerus mentioned in Ezra.