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    John Flaxman RA (6 July 1755 – 7 December 1826) was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early...
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  • field athlete Charles Flaxman (1806–1869), Australian clerk John Flaxman (1755–1826), English sculptor and draughtsman Maria Flaxman (1768–1833) English...
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    neoclassical sculptor and designer John Flaxman Jr., who began to supply Wedgwood with designs from 1775. Flaxman mostly worked in wax when designing...
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    1795 translation of Prometheus Bound was illustrated with drawings by John Flaxman showing the famous binding scene. Between 1798 and 1799, George Romney...
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    9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Achilles mourning Patrocles; after John Flaxman; 1795; engraving after a drawing; unknown size; unknown location Portrait...
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    machine. These are still described as plaster casts. Examples of these by John Flaxman may be found in the central rotunda of the library at University College...
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    engravings of John Flaxman than to the works of the Romantics, with whom he is often classified. However, Blake's relationship with Flaxman seems to have...
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    making the moulds for the designs of others, and sculpting his own. John Flaxman (Junior), then 19 years old but already a trained sculptor exhibiting...
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    Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin M. Wolkow, The Orphic Hymns, Johns Hopkins University Press; owlerirst Printing edition (May 29, 2013)....
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    as well as the Cyclopes, had once inhabited Sicily. Illustration by John Flaxman for the Odyssey (1810) Odysseus at the Laestrygonians. Source J. C. Andrä:...
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    alternative interpretations of such scenes. In the late Pre-Raphaelite painting by John D. Batten, hammer-wielding workmen appear through a doorway, while in the...
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    Odysseus by Hubert Maurer Hermes orders Calypso to release Odysseus by John Flaxman (1810) Odysseus bij Calypso (Rijksmuseum) Gérard (de) Lairesse Grimal...
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    Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn...
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    others (link) Homero, s. IX a. C. (2004). Odisea. Carlos García Gual, John Flaxman. Madrid: Alianza. ISBN 84-206-7750-7. OCLC 57058042. Geoffrey of Monmouth...
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    no way of knowing if they are wrong". Classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath argue that modern authors who identify the pair as homosexual ingeniously...
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    Demodocos singing to Odysseus and Alcinous, illustration by John Flaxman (1810)...
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    Street, Bloomsbury, includes the Octagon, Quad, Cloisters, Main Library, Flaxman Gallery and the Wilkins Building. The North Wing, South Wing, Chadwick...
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    Kretschmer, Glotta XXIV, p. 250. Martin Nilsson (1967), Vol I, p. 559 Angel, John L.; Mellink, Machteld Johanna (1986). Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium...
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    Following the Walpole sale many artists, including James Barry and John Flaxman, had made renewed calls for the establishment of a National Gallery,...
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    Muñoz Jiménez, Vol. 1, 2017, pp. 307. ISBN 978-84-697-8214-9. Chadwick, John, and Lydia Baumbach. "The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary". In: Glotta 41, no...
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    BC. Currently in British Museum. Ajax battling Hector, engraving by John Flaxman, 1795 Achilles and Ajax play a game of dice on this early 5th-century...
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  • 1890s. A series of plaster casts of full-size details of sculptures by John Flaxman is located inside the library under the dome of the UCL Main Building...
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    Demodocus playing the harp in an illustration of Homer's Odyssey by John Flaxman (1810)...
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    and fencer John Flaxman, sculptor John Fleetwood, baronet Bonaventure Giffard and his father Andrew Giffard John Ernest Grabe, theologian John Gurney, judge;...
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    artist. John Flaxman, professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy, was an old friend and Soane also acquired several plaster-casts of Flaxman's work for...
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    Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol...
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    many of which are framed and displayed in the museum. Soane's friend John Flaxman, sketched Soane's wife, this is framed and displayed in the museum. The...
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    lazuli. The empress' bedroom used Wedgwood jasper bas-reliefs designed by John Flaxman and George Stubbs. The Blue Room, or "Snuff-box", incorporated white...
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    replaced it during the Napoleonic era was shipped to Britain, where John Flaxman praised it to his students (Haskell and Penny 1981:319). Campo Iemini...
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    heavy dome supported on 12 Doric columns above a cenotaph carved by John Flaxman. The remains of an ancient mud fort also overlook the river, while there...
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