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. 1849 Excerpt: ...the name of the artist, Sosicles. The fourth is in the court of the palace Verospi. The fifth and sixth are likewise in the Capitol; but their heads--one of "which is antique, and the other modern, and covered with a helmet--do not belong to them; and neither corresponds to the statue upon which it is placed. The ...
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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. 1849 Excerpt: ...the name of the artist, Sosicles. The fourth is in the court of the palace Verospi. The fifth and sixth are likewise in the Capitol; but their heads--one of "which is antique, and the other modern, and covered with a helmet--do not belong to them; and neither corresponds to the statue upon which it is placed. The restorers of the last two statues did not understand that the heads of the Amazons are characterized by a definite idea, and to such a degree, that those of the four firstmentioned statues appear to be the heads of sisters, and taken, as it were, from the same mould. There is no difference even in the hair, either in its arrangement or execution; the countenance of all expresses what the word virago signifies. There are, however, in the Capitoline museum two heads perfectly similar to the others, and very well preserved, which, if they had been recognized, might have been placed upon those statues of Amazons which have not their original heads, for these supplemental heads are not in keeping with the rest of the body. No heads would have furnished to our artists better models for figures of the Holy Virgin than these, if the idea of using them for this purpose had ever occurred to any one. In the villa Pamfili is an Amazon (17), above the size of life, --as these figures always are, --which the process of restoration has converted into a Diana, though the drapery and head ought to have pointed out its true character. The sight of a single head of an Amazon would have removed all the doubts of a certain author (18), who finds himself unable to decide whether a head crowned with laurel--on the coins of the city of Myrina, in Asia Minor, which was built by the Amazons--represents an Apollo, or one of these heroines. I will not again repeat here wha...
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