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 320
c. He is standing with outstretchedleft arm, the right bending the paludamentum andthe sceptre. The attitude is lordly, calmly majestic,and at the same time benevolent. His cuirass, with itsexquisite reliefs, seems like the actual piece of metal.His hair is rather indicated than fully worked… … a; S Xlbc Sculpture (Ballcrtcs 399 dolphin rides a Cupid. IVrhaps that was meant toinchoate the eni|)erors descent from Venus, but itwas needed, technically, for a support for the marble.It is much inferior in workmanship to the statueitself. The Sala della Biga is so named from the Bigaor…
Vatican. Museo vaticano · Art
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