Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897 · Boston : James R. Osgood and Company · leaf 32
of the god-dess in the garden outside the eastern wall of Athens. Itwas greatly admired for its majesty and beauty, in whichthe sculptor was thought to approach his master verynearly. In the opinion of Dr. Lubke the ideal beauty ofthis statue can best be realized in the Venus of Melos, amuch… … Boston I ! t ./it ALCAMENES. 19 it is a Venus Victrix, and from the fact that it was found(in 1820) near the town of Melos, in the island of thatname. Dr. Liibke does not assume it to be a copy of thework of Alcamenes, but believes that it affords an ap-proximate idea of the types of this epoch. He…
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