Six Greek sculptors . ut that of the sister, here reproducedfrom the statue in Florence, shows the character ofthis series. We can see in it a softness and elasticityof modelling, and a graceful realism in the treatmentof drapery that reminds us of Praxiteles; and anintensity of expression, enhanced by the shadow thrownon the eye by the brow and on the brow by the over-hanging mass of drapery, that resembles what we seein the work of Scopas. It is interesting to note howthis motive of the overshadowing drapery has beentranslated by the sculptor of the disc into a compara-tively commonplace tre
Six Greek sculptors . ut that of the sister, here reproducedfrom the statue in Florence, shows the character ofthis series. We can see in it a softness and elasticityof modelling, and a graceful realism in the treatmentof drapery that reminds us of Praxiteles; and anintensity of expression, enhanced by the shadow thrownon the eye by the brow and on the brow by the over-hanging mass of drapery, that resembles what we seein the work of Scopas. It is interesting to note howthis motive of the overshadowing drapery has beentranslated by the sculptor of the disc into a compara-tively commonplace treatment of the rich folds ofdrapery as a background and frame to the these resemblances to the work of Scopas andPraxiteles do not imply that either of these mastersmade a group of the Niobids from which the extantfigures are directly copied. They must rather be l The position of the right and left arms is inverted on the discprobably to make the representation in relief easier and moreeffective. Tlate LXXV. A SOX OF NIOBK, IN FLORENCE To face p. 212 Plate LXXVI
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