Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 164
He executed a statue of Eros^ as the artisticexpression of his own love for Phryne, drawing thearchetype from his own heart, and he regarded it as hishappiest effort. Phryne having gained possession of it bystratagem, or received it as a free gift of love, offered it inthe Temple at Thespiae in… … EROS OF CENTOCELLE, VATICAN THE EROS OP^ CENTOCELLE II9 same words respecting these two statues. Thespiae, hesays, was visited solely for the sake of the Eros of Praxiteles, there being no other reason for going there. Notwith-standing its formal consecration as an object of worship,Caius Caesar…
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