. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. Plate 67 The Half-Figure. NATURAL FORMS. The Half-Figure. Plate 68. 100 The HaK-Figure. — The Sphinx, and the Centaur. 4. Socle of Altar, cathedral of Orvieto, Italian Renascence, (Go-werbehalle). 5. Part of relief, Italian Renascence. Plate 68. The Half-Figure. 1. Bracket, 1750, Italian, South Kensington Museum, London, (ArundeiSociety, Objects of art). 2. Decoration on ceiling. Castle of S. Angelo, Rome, Italian Re-nascence. 3. Sketch, by Polidore da
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. Plate 67 The Half-Figure. NATURAL FORMS. The Half-Figure. Plate 68. 100 The HaK-Figure. — The Sphinx, and the Centaur. 4. Socle of Altar, cathedral of Orvieto, Italian Renascence, (Go-werbehalle). 5. Part of relief, Italian Renascence. Plate 68. The Half-Figure. 1. Bracket, 1750, Italian, South Kensington Museum, London, (ArundeiSociety, Objects of art). 2. Decoration on ceiling. Castle of S. Angelo, Rome, Italian Re-nascence. 3. Sketch, by Polidore da Caravaggio, 16th century, Italian, Louvre^Paris. 4. Centre of a relief, lectern, cathedral, Limoges, French Renascence. 5. From basrelief, by J. Verchfere, Modern, French. The Sphinx, and the Centaur. (Plate 69.) The Sphinx is an imaginary combination of the Human bustwith the body of the Lion. It was originally an Egyptian colossal Sphinx of Memphis was begun under Cheops; it is hewnfrom the living rock, partly supplemented by masonry, and is morethan 150 feet long. The bust is generally a Womans; but in somecases it is a Ram head. The Sphinx is the guardian o
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