Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 241
ican, he at once composed the following contradictorydistich :— Brutum efiecisset sculptor, sed mente recursatTanta viri virtus, sistit et obstupuit. (The sculptor would have finished Brutus, but at the thought ofthe virtue of this great man, he suddenly stopped, discouraged,) 212 ITALIAN SCULP… … Fig. 44.—Ivy-crowned Bacchus. (Florence.) delicate and highly finished work, is near at hand.Instead of the passion, the stern pride of the Mosesat Rome, the Bacchus is full of grace and tender-ness. Crowned with ivy and vine leaves, he is ITALIAN SCULPTURE. 213 pressing grapes into a cup, from…
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