Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 244
A magnif-icent group, probably the original work mentioned byPliny, was found in the Baths of Caracalla in 1546, andwas transferred from the Palazzo Farnese in Rome toNaples in 1786, where it forms one of the principal orna-ments of the Museo Nazionale under the name of theFarnesian Bull (Toro… … THE FARNESE BULL, NAPLES MUSEUM THE FARNESE BULL 179 who appears to have taken the bust of Caracalla as a modelfor the new head of Zethus. Did we not know that theupper part of Dirces figure and her arms were restorations,we should wonder at her isolated position, since her onlymaterial connection…
Sculpture
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