The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special references to its use in art (1900)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, G. H. (George Henry) · New York : American Book · leaf 209
-Bhaken in all her sorrow, mother and queen to the last. Claspingber youngest daughter, whose tender years hav^ not preserved her, inher arms, and bending over as though to shield the child, she turns 20d GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. I^er own proud head upward, and before her left hand 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 Niobe. This ad-mirable figure, then, is pre - eminently the central point of the com.position, since it expresses an atonement which, in a scene of…
Mythology, Classical · Art, Greek · Art, Roman
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