A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 277
temple of Apollo Sosianus at Rome. They werereferred to both by Horace and Pliny as the work either ofSkopas or Praxiteles. Probably none of the original figures remain; those that areat Florence are only a part of the copies made, for some do notbelong to the subject and have merely been supplied… … Fig. 140.—ISTiobe and hee children. (Centre Group.)Now in the Florence Gallery, 254 DESCRIPTIONS OF STATUES. S. pathetic (Fig. 140). It was the favourite study of Guido, as isseen in his pictures. There is a head of Niobe in Lord Yarboroughs collectionwhich is considered to be finer than that of…
Sculpture, Ancient
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