A Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture : to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture (1905)
Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927, University Prints (Winchester, Mass.) · Boston, Bureau of University Travel · leaf 171
onios. The chief defect of the picture of the excellent restora-tion is that it is taken almost on a level instead of frombetween eighteen and twenty feet below, as the original ^ The probable date of this temple is 425 B. C. ^ Overbeck, S, Q.522 ; Pausanias X, 16, 4. ^ Some people see in the Iris… … 31. HERMES BRINGING DIONYSOS TO THE NYMPHS. FIFTH CENTURY. was seen. The same defect, although not to the same ex-tent, attaches to all pictures of the preserved torso of thestatue. Her downward flight through space is thus ar-rested, and one of her greatest charms is lost. The eagleat Nikes feet…
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