Wonders of sculpture . Fig. 14.—Faun with a Child. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) in quities. It was found in the sixteenth century,the gardens of Sallustius near the Ouirinal. Besides the divinities, there are many importantand excellent statues of human heroes and athletes no GRECIAN SCULlTiRE. in the Louvre. Amongst others, a very beautiful,youthful figure, which might have disputed the the Achilles, had not the head been restoredand made too small for the body. For a long time. Fig. 15.—Tlie pretended Germanicus. (Museum of theLouvre, Paris.) it was called Cincinnatus, on account
Wonders of sculpture . Fig. 14.—Faun with a Child. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) in quities. It was found in the sixteenth century,the gardens of Sallustius near the Ouirinal. Besides the divinities, there are many importantand excellent statues of human heroes and athletes no GRECIAN SCULlTiRE. in the Louvre. Amongst others, a very beautiful,youthful figure, which might have disputed the the Achilles, had not the head been restoredand made too small for the body. For a long time. Fig. 15.—Tlie pretended Germanicus. (Museum of theLouvre, Paris.) it was called Cincinnatus, on account of the plough-share at the feet. It cannot, however, representthe Roman senator, as the style is Grecian and thefigure too youthful. Winckelmann, after studying GRECIAN kCULPTUBE. 117 it, decided that it must be Jason, because the youthfastens his sandal on to his right foot, leaving theleft bare. In fact, according to the account ofPherecydes, Jason assumed the character of alabourer, in order to allay the suspicions of hisuncle Pelias ; and when the messenger of the kingof lolchus came to bid him to a solemn sacrifice,the hero set out half-shod, in order to appear beforePelias as t/w wan ivitJi a single sandal, whom theoracle had designated as his future murderer. Thisscientific explanation appears incontrovertible, andthe statue is called Jason : it appears to be from theskilful hand of the author of the Fighting Ccnta2ir, supposed to be a repetition of one ofthose
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