The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 67
OF MILO (APHRODITE OF MELOS), (The Louvre.)(Photograph by Giraudon.) work dating from about 100 B.C.,I am convinced that it is some threecenturies older than this ; and I be-lieve it to be a masterpiece of theschool of Phidias, representing, notVenus, but the goddess of the sea,Amphitrite, holding… … FIG. 74-—HEAD OF THE VENUS OF HILO. (The Louvre.) neither elegant, nor dreamy, nornervous, nor impassioned ; she isstrong and serene. Her beauty is allnoble simplicity and calm dignity, likethat of the Parthenon and its sculp-tures. Is not this the reason the statuehas become and has remained so…
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