Identifier: wondersofsculptu00viarrich (find matches)
Title: Wonders of sculpture
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883
Subjects: Sculpture
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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attendant ravages and desolation, soonfollowed to complete their ruin and deal their death-blow. In speaking of German sculpture, as ofpainting, we must therefore pass over the entireinterval between the three schools already men-tioned, which became extinct with their founders,and the renaissance attempted at the beginning ofthe present century by Overbeck, Cornelius, andtheir followers. A marble group of importance, and worthy ofthe notice of visitors for many reasons, was placedamong the plaster casts of celebrated ancient andmodern statues at Frankfort-on-the-Main, by one ofrichest bankers of that commercial city, in whichthe cradle of the Rothschild family may still beseen in the Judengasse (Jews Street). We allude l;54 GERMAN SCULPTURE. to Ariadne on the. Panther, signed, Danneckcr, ofStuttgart, 1814. This Ariadne is very celebrated,at least on the borders of the Rhine, from Mann-heim- to Coblentz. The hihabitants of Frankfortpride themselves on its possession, and have treated
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■^^>-;il;i,i;g;ij;jl„^.^j^li Plii- - I ^^^iiilfiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiii III! III! II mil FiJ,^ 49.—Ariadne on the Panther. By DaunecKer.(Frankfort-on-the-Main.) it as the Neapolitans did the great mosaic of Pom-peii, reproducing it, as a national glory, in bronze,plaster, ivory, and even in stags horn. It is a finework, certainly, but I thinlc it far beneath its repu- GERMAN SCULPTUIIK. 255 tation. 1l\\qAriadne—which appears to be an imi-tation of an antique fresco, Nereis carried by aMonster—is stretched at full length on the back ofa panther, or, rather, chimera, for the mythologicalanimal which supports her is not a known livingcreature. Her attitude is graceful and pleasing,although slightly distorted. The upper part of thefigure of the beloved of Bacchus—not yet deserted,but triumphant—is less beautiful than the lowerlimbs. The legs are very fine, both in design andexecution; the torso is also very good, but notequal to the legs ; and the head appears to me thefe

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