. Pompeii : its life and art . ot beidentified. The fig-ure is instinct withrhythmic muscle of thesatyrs sinewy frameis in tension as hemoves forward in thedance, snapping hisfingers to keep time;the pose is a marvelof skill. The unhu-man character of thehalf-brute is indicatedby the horns project-ing from the forehead,and the pointed face, marked bylow cunning, offers nosuggestion of loftythought or moralsense. We have herethe personification ofunalloyed physical en-joyment. The satyr, . , Fisj. 248. — Dancing Faun. Bronz unvexed by any care Naples Museum_ or qualm of co
. Pompeii : its life and art . ot beidentified. The fig-ure is instinct withrhythmic muscle of thesatyrs sinewy frameis in tension as hemoves forward in thedance, snapping hisfingers to keep time;the pose is a marvelof skill. The unhu-man character of thehalf-brute is indicatedby the horns project-ing from the forehead,and the pointed face, marked bylow cunning, offers nosuggestion of loftythought or moralsense. We have herethe personification ofunalloyed physical en-joyment. The satyr, . , Fisj. 248. — Dancing Faun. Bronz unvexed by any care Naples Museum_ or qualm of con-science, is intoxicated with the joy of free movement, and danceson and on, unwearied, with perfect ease and grace. Muscular tension is skilfully indicated in the Silenus, whostands holding above his head with his left hand a round frame,in which, as shown by the fragments, a vase of colored glass wasstanding at the time of the eruption. The head, crowned withivy, leans forward and to the right, and the right hand is moved. statue, n<.\\ in tli 444 POMPEII away from the body in the effort to balance the weight sup-ported by the left. The frame is awkwardly designed to repre-sent a snake. The thick-set figure of Silenus is less than sixteen
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