Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 134
has fled to its mother, andhiding its head in the folds of her robe and casting up onearm as in a passionate appeal for defense from her, where itnever before could have been sought in vain, seems in themarble to have scarcely suspended the motion of her terror;as though conceived to be yet in the… … NIOBE, UFFIZI, FLORENCE NIOBE 95 ill profuse drapery, a portion of which the left hand hasgathered up and is in the act of extending it over the childin the instinct of defending her from what reason knows tobe inevitable. The right—as the restorer has rightly com-prehended-, is gathering up her…
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