Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 88
d her feet rested on a lion*s skin. For some timeit was imagined that an idea of the majestic effect of thework was afforded by a copy of a later period, the colossalmarble head of Juno in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome. It iscertainly a work which, in the grand character of its forms,combines the… … HERA LUDOVISI, MUSEO DELLE TERME, ROME HERA LUDOVISI 57 The statue of Hera in the temple between Argos andMycenae was the work of Polycletus. It was erected after423 B. c, when it was necessary to rebuild the shrine ofthe goddess owing to the burning of the older temple.The goddess was seated on…
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