The art of the Vatican; being a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal art treasures within its walls (1903)
Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 316
e comic poets Me^nander and Poseidippus in the Galleria delle Statueare most excellent examples of the portrait work ofperhaps the Hellenistic period. They rank nearlywith the celebrated Sophocles in the LateranMuseum. Poseidippus, the Athenian dramatist ofthe new comedy, flourished in the early… … HEAD OF AUGUSTUSIn the Sala dei Busti Ubc Sculpture (Ballcrtcs 295 work, and also of being a speaking likeness. Itmay have been modelled in the actual presence ofthe subject, but in that case the name on the frontof the plinth was doubtless inscribed later, when thefigure was removed from its…
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