Wonders of sculpture . Fi£j. 29.—The Torso of the Belvedere. (Rome. Vatican.) , ^ of IBM ^ GRECIAN 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 or false, this anecdote shows the spirit of the. Fig. 2j. The Dancing I-,iun. (Xaples.) age, and the enthusiasm of great artists for anti-quity ; and it paints the portrait of the man who,from his birth to his death, loved art and art alone,In the museum dcgli Studj at Naples, there are 144 GRECIAN SCULPTUIiE. some bronze antiquitie
Wonders of sculpture . Fi£j. 29.—The Torso of the Belvedere. (Rome. Vatican.) , ^ of IBM ^ GRECIAN 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 or false, this anecdote shows the spirit of the. Fig. 2j. The Dancing I-,iun. (Xaples.) age, and the enthusiasm of great artists for anti-quity ; and it paints the portrait of the man who,from his birth to his death, loved art and art alone,In the museum dcgli Studj at Naples, there are 144 GRECIAN SCULPTUIiE. some bronze antiquities obtained in excavations atPompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. They are very-rare, as numbers of the same kind were destroyedin barbarous times, for the sake of the valuablematerial. Of about a hundred of these figures, thebest are—the little Dancing Faun, a perfect gem,a very marvel of grace, ease, and vivacity ; theSleeping Fami; the Drunken Faun, leaning overhis bottle and snapping his fingers; the SeatedMercury, which evidently belongs to the best ageof Grecian art; the figure called Sappho, also thebust of Plato, the hair of which is most delicatelychiselled ; a horse, sole remnant of the quadriga^ ofwhich it formed part. Amongst the marbles of the Stndj, the Vejius ofCapita and the Venus Callipygo
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