Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 290
RiM Fig. 51.—The Amazon, by Aug. Kisa (Berlin.) the T/iiergarten of Berlin, and the former of theAmazon on horseback attacked by a lioness, placedin front of the peristyle of the museum Thisbronze group is splendid, full of action and life. GERMAN SCULPTURE. ?59 The warrior-maiden of the Thermodon,… … Fig. 52.—Goethe and Schiller. form an admirable whole. We are tempted toaddress the horse as the Greek poet did that ofLysippus : What a grand head ! what flames areemitted from his nostrils! If the rider touch him 260 (iKUMAN SCULPTURE. with his heels, he will carry him onwards, for thebronze…
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