Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904 · London : Seeley and Co. ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 75
is father. Several things point in this latter direction.The massiveness of the torso of Hermes is not what we shall find inothers of his statues such as the Sauroctonos, but in this respect remindsus more of his fathers statue of Eirene carrying the infant Plutos on herarm, which infant, again, is… … Fig. 26.—Hermes by Praxiteles. Olympia. think, be traced to any other than Praxiteles himself. Similarly, themotive or action of the Hermes is exactly of that very slight kind whichwe expect from that sculptor more than any other. Hermes, as we now GREEK BRONZES 67 know, had held up in his right…
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