Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 116
etrical model of the beautiful proportions ofthe human body. The hero of the Iliad has nogarment but the elegant Grecian helmet, coveringthe long hair which he cut off in his despair overthe corpse of Patroclus. The episphyrion ring, or Gil EC J AN SCULP TUBE. 99 that worn above the ankle on the… … Fig. 8.—Achilles. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) footed Achilles, as he is called by the poet ; no lightpraise, as the prize in the races, was always themost honourable trophy of the public games ofGreece. It was Visconti who gave the nam.e ofAchilles to this statue. Wiuckelmann is disposed 100 on…
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