Wonders of sculpture . heson of Apollodorus, an Athenian. Perhaps insteadof the name Cleomenes we ought to read Alcamenes,also an Athenian, and the greatest Grecian sculptorbetween Pheidias and Praxiteles, author of a famousVenus alluded to by Pliny, which was at Rome inhis time. Otherwise this is the only work we haveof an unknown artist, not once mentioned byPausanias. In any case it must be placed in thehighest rank, for if copies had not multiplied it toprofusion, it would be worth while to go to Florenceto admire the Venus of Cleomenes, as the templeof Gnidus (Cnidus) was visited from all
Wonders of sculpture . heson of Apollodorus, an Athenian. Perhaps insteadof the name Cleomenes we ought to read Alcamenes,also an Athenian, and the greatest Grecian sculptorbetween Pheidias and Praxiteles, author of a famousVenus alluded to by Pliny, which was at Rome inhis time. Otherwise this is the only work we haveof an unknown artist, not once mentioned byPausanias. In any case it must be placed in thehighest rank, for if copies had not multiplied it toprofusion, it would be worth while to go to Florenceto admire the Venus of Cleomenes, as the templeof Gnidus (Cnidus) was visited from all parts ofGreece by admirers of the Venus of Praxiteles, ofwhich it was said, that it was to the statues ofVenus what Venus herself was amongst ; indeed it appeared so instinct with life, GREVIAN SCULLTUKE. 131 Ovid said, If she remained motionless, it wasbecause her divine majesty enjoined immobihty. A little Apollo of four feet high, called theApolliiio, is also attributed to Clcomenes, but for no. Fig. 20.— (Florence.) other reason than a certain resemblance to theVejius in style and execution. It has an advantageover the latter in being entirely antique. If theApollo Belvedere may be called the model of the 132 GliEClA S SL? Uir TURK. sublime, the Apollino certainly deserves to be con-sidered the model of the graceful. This observa-tion, made by the discerning Raphael Mengs, is alsothe first to occur to the observer, The careless
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