Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 708
to celebrate his decisivevictory over the Gauls (B. C. 240). To the later Athenian school belong probably the BelvidereTorso, so much 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… … DYING GLADIATOH. late as the Roman empire. According to Flaxman, the VenusdeMedici 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…
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