Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 149
be wasoriginally arrayed, and what purpose was servedby the statues thus united in one conceptionand one scene. According to Pliny, there was agroup of Niobe and her children at Rome, takenfiom the Temple of the Sosian Apollo, and askilful English architect, Mr. Cokerell, has argued 128 QBECJAN… … Fig. 19.—TTie Venus of Medici. (Florence.) woula have existed before the Romans despoiledthe temples of Greece. In the centre Niobe holdsa dying maiden in her arms, and on either side six GUECJAN SCULPIUUE. 129 riir^ires arranged to suit the triangular tympanum,complete the group. In the Tribuna,…
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