This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...A. Dallaway, no. i. It is a fairly exact replica of the Vatican statue, Braccio Nuovo, no. 14 (JMus. Chiaram. n. 39. Clarac, v. 947, 2430). Both statues, which are of about the same size, come from Ostia. The Vatican copy was discovered in 1798 at Tor Bovacciano (Fea, Viaggio ad Ostia, p. 48); the English example had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...A. Dallaway, no. i. It is a fairly exact replica of the Vatican statue, Braccio Nuovo, no. 14 (JMus. Chiaram. n. 39. Clarac, v. 947, 2430). Both statues, which are of about the same size, come from Ostia. The Vatican copy was discovered in 1798 at Tor Bovacciano (Fea, Viaggio ad Ostia, p. 48); the English example had been found considerably earlier by Gavin Hamilton, and indeed not, as Fea says, in 1788 near the Capanna de' Bassi, but, according to Hamilton's own account, in the year 1772 near Porta Marina (Dallaway, p. 377 n. p. 129, cf. Lord Edm. Fitzmaurice, Academy, Aug. 10, 1878, p. 142, notej). New on our statue: r. arm, 1. hand with the bunch of ears of corn and poppies, the greater part of the lap full of fruits, the feet, the lowest part of the support, and the pedesta1. The neck is inserted and the greater part of the head modern; a piece, however, comprising the chin with the 1. jaw, the under lip, the r. cheek and a great part of the tresses, is antique and, as I believe, originally belonging to the statue. (According to Dallaway and Waagen the whole head would not belong to the statue.) While in the Vatican statue the lap of the cloak, so far as it is antique, contains roses, narcissuses, bell-shaped lotus and pears (Mus. Chiaram., N. p. 86), and therefore suggests different seasons, in the antique parts of the English statue only autumn fruits are contained, grapes, plums, apples, quinces, a vine leaf. Both suit the conception of Antinous as Verturanus. The body exhibits the usual merely external polish of the sculptures of the period of Hadrian; a polish admired by a generation which saw true ideal art in this academic elegance. Greek marble. H. 2'40. CfF 21. Male torso, rightly compared by Conze with the Borghese boxer in the Louvre. The tor...
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