Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 582
ted into effeminacy and coquetry, so the dramaticvigour of Scopas led to such inartistic strenuosities as thePergamon Altar, the Farnese Bull, and {pace I^essing !) theI^aocoon. Probably numerous sculptures exist which aremore or less close imitations of his works, such as of his cele-brated raving… … ANCIENT GREECE(a statue of the god singing to his harp) and the Venus Vicirixof the I^ouvre may possibly be copies of his works. Of theNiobe group I shall speak later. A subject of great interest in connexion with Scopas is thatof the Mausoleum of HaUcarnassus, the magnificent monument erected by…
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