Wonders of sculpture . Fig. 22. — The Wrestlers. (Florence.) There remains a figure difficult to name, of whichwe have a bronze copy in the garden of theTuileries. It is a man with a coarse and commonface, a low foreliead and short rough hair, in acons:;raincd position, neither seated nor kneeling; GRKCIAS SCULriURE. ];;-. he is crouching before a stone on which he issharpening his knife. The Italians call him theArrotino, and we have given him various names—the Knife-grmdcr, the Rotator, and the Spy, be-

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