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 (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 718
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 GI-ADFATOR. late as the Roman empire. According to Flaxman, the VenusdeMedici is a deteriorated variet} or repetition of a Venus ofPraxiteles. It is now generally admitted that it is a work ofthe latest Macedonian period, probably b}^ Cleomenes, whosename appears on its base. The Fighting…
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