Wonders of sculpture . em-bled —that Jupiter, the chief of masterpieces,which should have been as eternal as art itself, butv/as destroyed at the taking of Byzantium by thecrusaders of Baldwin. In the Louvre there are but five of the nineMuses which form the family of Apollo and Mne-mosyne. First the colossal statue of Melpomene,from the theatre of Pompey at Rome. It is fourmetres high, and none of the entire statues be-queathed to us by antiquity are of greater dimen-sions. Fragments alone suggest the idea of largercolossi, such as the Hippomacin of Lysippus, or the 112 G11 EC I AN SOUL P TUR
Wonders of sculpture . em-bled —that Jupiter, the chief of masterpieces,which should have been as eternal as art itself, butv/as destroyed at the taking of Byzantium by thecrusaders of Baldwin. In the Louvre there are but five of the nineMuses which form the family of Apollo and Mne-mosyne. First the colossal statue of Melpomene,from the theatre of Pompey at Rome. It is fourmetres high, and none of the entire statues be-queathed to us by antiquity are of greater dimen-sions. Fragments alone suggest the idea of largercolossi, such as the Hippomacin of Lysippus, or the 112 G11 EC I AN SOUL P TURK. gigantic brazen Apollo raised over the port ofRhodes by his pupil Chares. In spite of her massivesize, this Muse in the tragic buskin is as gracefuland elegant as the Farncsc Flora, the giantess ofNaples. A Urania holding up the skirt of her tunicwith her left hand, which really rather resembles iiniiiiiii Itll. :ii[i iiini iii!iiiiiiiii(iiiiini<iiniiiinitimiitiiiiiii!iiiiiiiniiHiifiiiiiinMt rpimiimminniiiti ni. Fig. 12.—The Tiber. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) a personification of Fate, but has become the Museof astronomy, because Girardon has chosen to puta sidereal crown upon her head. A Polyhymnia,also called Study and Reflection, the head andupper part of the body of which are modern, butwhich is nevertheless admirable on account of the
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