The art of the Vatican; a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal works of art within its walls . so-called Venus Anadyomene, in the Gabi-netto delle Maschere, is doubtless a copy of a lateredition of Praxiteless celebrated Venus, possiblyfrom the draped one that went to the city of stands somewhat as does the Venus of Milos,with her head, however, bent down, while with bothhands she arranges her unbound hair. The linesand masses are sweetly pleasing, but there is littleof the majestic beauty of the goddess of love to beseen in this adaptation. A copy of an adaptat
The art of the Vatican; a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal works of art within its walls . so-called Venus Anadyomene, in the Gabi-netto delle Maschere, is doubtless a copy of a lateredition of Praxiteless celebrated Venus, possiblyfrom the draped one that went to the city of stands somewhat as does the Venus of Milos,with her head, however, bent down, while with bothhands she arranges her unbound hair. The linesand masses are sweetly pleasing, but there is littleof the majestic beauty of the goddess of love to beseen in this adaptation. A copy of an adaptation is what the Herculesholding Telephos, in the Museo Chiaramonti, maybe called. The original was presumably a group byPraxiteles. But most of the simple beauty of Prax-iteles has been obscured. Even the lions skin ismore theatric. The attitude, too, is changed, andthe child is awkwardly placed on the left arm. TheHercules in Villa Albani is a better copy of a betteradaptation. In the head of the one in the Chiara-monti, however, the main points of the PraxiteleanHercules are faithfully preserved. Even the gen-. VENUS ANADYOMENE In the Gabinetto delle Maschere Zbc Sculpture Oallertes 287 cral plan of the forms corresponds with the Hermesof Olympia. The modelling of the forehead is simi-lar, though more powerful, and eyes, lids, sockets,nose, and profile correspond exactly. Only in detailslike the hair and lower eyelid occur the differencesof treatment always found in a copyists work. Itis undoubtedly the most beautiful head of the heroexcept the beardless Scopasian type. In it, too, onefinds resemblance to another noted type, — Zeus ofOtricoli. Not because they are the work of onemaster, but because of one development and oneage. This head is probably a copy of the secondAttic school. In a similar group is Silenus with the infantBacchus in his arms. On one of the pedestals inthe Braccio Nuovo, it is not a first-class copy ofwhat, to judge by the numerous replicas, must haveb
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