. A short history of art . marine deities, occupy the spacebehind Poseidon, who draws back at the command of thegoddess. On the other side we have the chariot of Athene,Erechtheus, Cecrops, the ancestor of the Athenians, andother figures, who join in rejoicing that the land has beenpreserved from the desolation of the sea. The metopes rep-resent combats with centaurs. Phidias may be said to have revealed the gods anew to theGreeks in the types which he created. The Venus de Milo isa reproduction of one of these. In it we have a pure andelevated ideal of the goddess of love. Jupiter Olympus, as
. A short history of art . marine deities, occupy the spacebehind Poseidon, who draws back at the command of thegoddess. On the other side we have the chariot of Athene,Erechtheus, Cecrops, the ancestor of the Athenians, andother figures, who join in rejoicing that the land has beenpreserved from the desolation of the sea. The metopes rep-resent combats with centaurs. Phidias may be said to have revealed the gods anew to theGreeks in the types which he created. The Venus de Milo isa reproduction of one of these. In it we have a pure andelevated ideal of the goddess of love. Jupiter Olympus, as represented in the gold-and-ivorystatue made for the great temple of Olympia, was anotherof these types. We can probably form some idea of it fromthe impression of an existing coin of Elis. The Greekslooked upon it as a misfortune not to have seen this statuebefore death; for in seeing it they saw Zeus, the omnipotentruler and the benefactor of men, face to face. We are tempted to close this account of the Phidian period. CLEOMENES UFFIZI GALLERY VENUS DE MEDICIExample of decline, when sculpture had lost its high spirit of ab-straction and the type has been individualized.
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