Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London, Duckworth and co. · leaf 383
and meltingglance of his eyes, lost his virile and leonine aspect.There are many epigrams about the portrait; perhapsthe most instructive is the following: The bronze, metliinks, will sp- ak with eyes upraised to Zeus on high,I eet the earth beneath my fett ; tis thine to rule the sky. Most of the… … HEAD OF ALEXAXDEli, IX IIRITISH JUSEUJI ■l\^fw^p. -in LYSIPPUS 225 typical of his style; and, as a not unnatural result, theAzara head in the Louvre, an idealised portrait of com-paratively cold and correct workmanship, has oftenbeen taken as nearest to the Lysippean original. Onemight well…
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