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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
This book is under the impression that the general cultivation of
practical taste, and an acquaintance with the principles of the
Fine Arts, are not only desirable in the light of acquirement, but
must eventually prove highly beneficial to the useful arts of the
country.
The artist Sappho Marchal was the daughter of the renowned French
conservator of Angkor, Henri Marchal. She spent the early years of
her life in Cambodia, surrounded by the magnificent ruins of the
Khmers, and produced the present study at age 23. Her fine line
drawings present the myriad details of ornament and costume
depicted on the stone reliefs of Angkor Wat with a clarity that
could not be captured, even then, on film. Since that time, many of
the stone carvings have severely deteriorated, rendering Marchal's
drawings all the more valuable as a record for present-day students
and restorers of Angkor.
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