The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special reference to its use in art (1894)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, George Henry · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 209
aken in all her sorrow, mother and queen to the last. Claspingher youngest daughter, whose tender years havo not preserved her, inher arms, and bonding over as though to shield the child, she turns 206 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. her own prou:l head upward, and before her left hciitl can cover… … Fig. 54.—Niobe. Florence. for mercy, but a sorrowful and yet withal lofty expression of heroicresignation to inexorable fate that is worthy of a Xiobe. This ad-mirable figure, then, is pre-eminently the central point of the coiuposition, since it expresses an atonement which, in a scene of…
Mythology, Classical · Art, Roman · Art, Greek
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