Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 146
Naples. The series of antique marbles begins in thesecond hall of the museum degl Uffizi. We willmerely name the two immense wolf-hounds withgaping mouths and fiery eyes, which seem to guardthe entrance to the galleries ; and the celebratedmarble boar called the Boar of Florence, of which GUECIAS… … Fig. 18.—Niobe. (Florence.) discovered together in 1583, at Rome, near thegate of St. Paul. The Medicis, .who obtained pos-session of them, took them to Florence. Everyone is well acquainted uith the mythological ti f ^ii *v 126 GHECIAX SCULPTURE. history of Niobe, told by Ovid and Apollodorus,…
Sculpture
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Recueil de trois cent têtes et sujets de composition [graphic] (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-gri_recueildetro00cayl-232-311.webp)
