Identifier: criticismmo00chil (find matches)
Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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the Levant squadron;and at length, in 1866, three years after their discovery, thesepieces were fitted together, and the statue of the Winged Vic-tory of Samothrace was placed in the Louvre Museum, in adark corner in the Salle des Cariatides, where its beauty was,nevertheless, remarked, while its claims to be regarded as oneof the greatest treasures of Greek art were fervently assertedby artists and archaeologists alike. The attention which this statue attracted caused theFrench government to send a second mission to Samothrace,under the direction of MM. G. Deville and E. Coquart; butthese gentlemen had no faith and no enthusiasm, and theirexcavations were abandoned before they had given any consid-erable result. Thereupon the first explorer of Samothrace,M. Conze, who had meanwhile become professor at Vienna, in-duced the Austrian Minister of Public Instruction to send anarchaeological mission to the island, and in 1873 M. Conzewent out, accompanied by two architects, MM. Hauser and
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THE WINGED VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE. THE WINGED VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE. 173 Niemann. In 1875 M. Conze again visited Samothrace, ac-companied by MM. Hauser and Benndorf, and the result ofthese two series of excavations was the clearing and the re-constitution of the plans and architectural arrangement of thevarious temples and edifices already referred to, and the dis-covery of a few pieces of sculpture, and of a number of inscrip-tions. The Austrian savants have given an excellent accountof their labors in two finely illustrated works, ArclurologischeUntcrsiichuugcn atif Samothrake (Vienna, 1875), and NeucArchceologische Untersuchungen, by Conze, Hauser, and Benn-dorf (Vienna, 1880). After his return to Vienna, M. Benndorf conceived the ideathat the blocks of strange shape which M. Champoiseau hadleft when he took away the statue of Victory, and which thetwo Austrian missions had also neglected because they did notcomprehend their use, formed the pedestal of the statue, andthat when put t

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