Wonders of sculpture . Fig. lo. — Hacchus. (Museum ot the Louvre, Paris. Lizard slayer, the head of which, although onlyrestored, is antique, supposed to be a good copy ofthe bronze Saiiroctonos of Praxiteles. (JnECJA1: bcuiri uue. luy Agile, and scantily clothed, as Fontaine wouldexpress it, a Diana may always be recognised by thetunic raised above the knees, which has gained her. Fig. II.—Mercury. (Museum (;f the Louvre, Paris.) the name of the Fah-Hinbcd goddess. Of the six sis-ters of the Huntress Diana in the collection of theLouvre, the Diana of Gabii is the most celebrated. 110 GRECIAN
Wonders of sculpture . Fig. lo. — Hacchus. (Museum ot the Louvre, Paris. Lizard slayer, the head of which, although onlyrestored, is antique, supposed to be a good copy ofthe bronze Saiiroctonos of Praxiteles. (JnECJA1: bcuiri uue. luy Agile, and scantily clothed, as Fontaine wouldexpress it, a Diana may always be recognised by thetunic raised above the knees, which has gained her. Fig. II.—Mercury. (Museum (;f the Louvre, Paris.) the name of the Fah-Hinbcd goddess. Of the six sis-ters of the Huntress Diana in the collection of theLouvre, the Diana of Gabii is the most celebrated. 110 GRECIAN SCULPTURE. With a graceful movement she appears to be fasten-ing her chlamys (?)(Xa/xui, a linen mantle caught to-gether on the shoulder). Of the three statues ofBacchus in our museum, one is the Indian or bearded(irwyov) Bacchus, and the two others are Grecian ;one in repose, the other drunken, both wearing theCredemnoH, or diadem with ivy, and no garmentbut a fawns skin. Three Hercules, amongst othersa semi-colossal group, in which the god of strengthholds his delicate child Telephus in his powerfularms, with the hind which suckles it close besidehim. Three Mercuries, one with Vulcan, in whichgroup the gods of the mechanical arts are in amanner united. As Vulcan is not here deformed, thetwo figures were long taken for Castor and Pollux,or for Orestes and Pylades ; but
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