Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 724
celebrate his decisivevictory over ihe Gauls (B. C. 240). To the later Athenian school belong probably the BelvidereTorso, so mucn admired by Michael Angelo, the Farnese Her- THE MACEDONIAN AGE. 689 cules, the Venus de Medici, and the Fighting Gladiator. TheBelvidere Torso is now considered to be a… … DYING GLADIATOR. late as the Roman empire. According to Flaxman, the Venusde^Iedici is a deteriorated variety or repetition of a Venus ofPraxiteles. It is now generally admitted that it is a work ofthe latest Macedonian period, probably by Cleomenes, whosename appears on its base. The Fighting…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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