Wonders of sculpture . ulptor, also called tlie beautiful, becauseshe is adorned with the pearl necklace usuallyreserved for Venus. A Minerva Hellotis (whosehelmet is decked with myrtles), which is probably acopy of some old wooden idol, draped with heavystuffs, plaited in perpendicular flutings on the , the usual type of manly beauty, affordedas much scope as Venus for the skill of Greciansculptors. The French museum also contains ninestatues of this god, including that of the Sun, withrays about the head, which is not, strictly speaking,an Apollo, but Helios, the son of Hyperion a
Wonders of sculpture . ulptor, also called tlie beautiful, becauseshe is adorned with the pearl necklace usuallyreserved for Venus. A Minerva Hellotis (whosehelmet is decked with myrtles), which is probably acopy of some old wooden idol, draped with heavystuffs, plaited in perpendicular flutings on the , the usual type of manly beauty, affordedas much scope as Venus for the skill of Greciansculptors. The French museum also contains ninestatues of this god, including that of the Sun, withrays about the head, which is not, strictly speaking,an Apollo, but Helios, the son of Hyperion and Thyia,who was only worshipped at Rhodes and four of the nine are Pythian Apollos, thebest in the Louvre is one of the two called Lycian,because the attitude, that of repose, with the armsfolded above the head, and the serpent crawling at 108 QREVJAN SVULPTUHE. the feet, are suggestive of the Lycian Apollo, towhom Athens raised a celebrated temple. Wemust also admire the young Apollo Saiiroctonos, or. Fig. lo. — Hacchus. (Museum ot the Louvre, Paris. Lizard slayer, the head of which, although onlyrestored, is antique, supposed to be a good copy ofthe bronze Saiiroctonos of Praxiteles. (JnECJA1: bcuiri uue. luy Agile, and scantily clothed, as Fontaine wouldexpress it, a Diana may always be recognised by thetunic raised above the knees, which has gained her
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