Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 139
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… … Fig. 17.—The Faun of Praxiteles. (Rome.) GREJIAN SCULP TUBE. 110 fully copied ; actual proportions were retained, andeven faults were not disguised. There are but fewof these Grecian iconic statues in the Louvre. Aseated philosopher meditating is called Demosthenes,because the features, which are…
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