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Definition of Telamons
1. telamon [n] - See also: telamon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telamons
Literary usage of Telamons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily: With an Appendix Containing ...by George William Davis Evans by George William Davis Evans (1835)
"The work is admirably distributed, and varied with ovals, cornices, and telamons,
the latter sometimes in stucco, sometimes in chiaroscuro; ..."
2. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1873)
"60), probably as an imitation o( those colossal figures, twelve cubits high, at
the entrance of the temple of Apis, in Egypt, — Bearers, telamons or ..."
3. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1907)
"It is only in the head-rest that Papuan excels Polynesian Art: and one Papuan
head-rest is a miniature capital with telamons, volutes, and abacus complete.5 ..."
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