Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 263
he ordinary fault of Canovas largecompositions, but the statue as a whole is asplendid study ; every limb, every muscle perfectlyexpresses strength in action. For my part, how-ever, I consider the finest part of the group to bethe Minotaur—if such it may still be called, nowthat sculpture,… … Fig. 48.—Theseus vanquishing the Minotaur, by Canova.(Vienna.) with the left arm and his stomach with one knee,is most happily rendered, and full of energy. The * It is possible, tliat in spite of tiie name given to this famousgroup, the sculptor intended to represent not Theseus slaying…
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