Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . sterly if not the most beautifulpresentation which is known to us of theidealized male body. Plate LXV gives twoviews of this magnificent Hercules, thepiece which Michelangelo, as we are told,considered his best master in art, and whichis fortunately uninjured as to its surfacein those parts which are not broken statue found in 1820 in the Island ofMilo, the ancient Melos, and which is nowin the Louvre, the Venus of Milo, must alsobe classed with the pieces of this time (seePlate X) and so must the splendid bronzeat Bresci
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . sterly if not the most beautifulpresentation which is known to us of theidealized male body. Plate LXV gives twoviews of this magnificent Hercules, thepiece which Michelangelo, as we are told,considered his best master in art, and whichis fortunately uninjured as to its surfacein those parts which are not broken statue found in 1820 in the Island ofMilo, the ancient Melos, and which is nowin the Louvre, the Venus of Milo, must alsobe classed with the pieces of this time (seePlate X) and so must the splendid bronzeat Brescia, the winged Victory kept there;and also the Aphrodite of Capua, in theNaples Museum. These three statues maywell be assumed to be each an original, butall to be studies and re-studies of the sametype. Even the Aphrodite or Venus ofCapua, though probably of the Romanperiod, may well be rather a reminiscenceand a re-study than a copy. The type isthat of the Nike writing on a shield thenames of those whom she delights to honoror the record of their deeds.[40]. Plate X.—STATUE CALLED AIHRODITE AND ALSO A VICTORY: IN THE LOUVREMUSEUM: POPULARLY THE VENUS OF MILO. PHOTOGRAPH OF 1876. Greek Culmination and Decline As regards the Aphrodite of Melos, itmust be stated that there have been severaldifferent opinions held and urged stronglyby competent judges as to the probablestate and purpose of the statue in its orig-inal condition. Even the epoch is dis-puted, for at least one most accepted ar-chaeologist and fearless critic of our own timeclaims for it an antiquity as great as thatof the Phidian age itself—the fifth centuryB. c. It has even been proposed that thestatue be taken really as an Aphrodite(Venus) and as such grouped with perhapsAres (Mars), from w^hose shoulders she maybe thought to be lifting the sword-belt—orelse as * Venus Victrix holding out the ap-ple just received in the Judgment of placid, unsuggestive expression of faceand the undisturbed attitude a
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