Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 129
ercolossi, such as the Hippomacin of Lysippus, or the 112 G11 EC I AN SOUL P TURK. gigantic brazen Apollo raised over the port ofRhodes by his pupil Chares. In spite of her massivesize, this Muse in the tragic buskin is as gracefuland elegant as the Farncsc Flora, the giantess ofNaples. A Urania… … Fig. 12.—The Tiber. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) a personification of Fate, but has become the Museof astronomy, because Girardon has chosen to puta sidereal crown upon her head. A Polyhymnia,also called Study and Reflection, the head andupper part of the body of which are modern, butwhich is…
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