Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 137
ile vatum. This beautiful figure, re-markable for the profound knowledge of muscularanatomy displayed in it, is thought to be one cf 118 OR EC I AN SCULPTURE. the numerous copies in sculpture in full or bas-relief of the celebrated picture by Zeuxis, calledthe Bound Marsyas, which was to be seen at… … Fig. 16.—A Discobolus. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) statues iconiccE by the Romans, i. e., statue-portraits(from eUcov, image). They became fashionablewhen Grecian sculptors were commissioned to im-mortalise the athletes who were victorious in thepublic games. In them all notion of the…
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