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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ary had left the calm simplicity of thetime of Pericles far behind. The Mercury (orMeleagcr) is a fine statue, in perfect preser-vation, replete at once with grace and vigour, ofwhich it is enough to state that it is justlyclassed with the most valuable works which havecome down to us from antiquity. B it in theopinion of connoisseurs, they are all inferior to amere broken fragment, a Torso, also called TheBelvedere. It is in white marble, the remains of astatue of Hercules in repose, by ApoUonius, son ofMiston or Nestor of Athens, as stated in the Greekinscription on the base, so that it must belong tothe great age of Greece. (See Fig. 30, p. 144.) It isremarkable for every beauty possible in a singleform, and combines the most opposite excellencies,such as energy and grace, strength and elasticity.Michael Angelo called himself the pupil of theTorso. He copied the details and the generaleffect in his figure of St. Bartholomew in the LastJudgment; and it is related that in his extreme
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Fi£j. 29.—The Torso of the Belvedere. (Rome. Vatican.) , ^ of IBM ^ GRECIAN SCUl.rrURE. 143 old aee, when he was almost blind, he still likedto trace those outlines with his trembling fingersat which he had so often gazed with admiration.True or false, this anecdote shows the spirit of the

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