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-. Fig. 23.—The Arrotino. (lIorence. ca^se, his head being on one side, and his eyesraised,
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-. Fig. 23.—The Arrotino. (lIorence. ca^se, his head being on one side, and his eyesraised, he would appear to be interested in some-thing beyond his mechanical occupation. Somehave supposed it to be the slave who discoveredthe conspiracy of the sons of the first Brutus for ]3r, GllhUIAN SCULfTU/iE. restoring the Tarquins; others, that it was theslave who revealed the Catiline plot. None ofthese conjectures could be true of a Grecian work,and they have been proved to be false by con-clusive evidence. Amongst the engraved stones inthe collection of the King of Prussia, there is onedescribed by Winckelmann, which represents thetorture of Marsyas. Before the condemned, whois already bound to the tree, is the figure, exactlyresembling the Ar7otijio, of the Scythian orderedby Apollo to flay his unfortunate rival. The samepersonage, in the same attitude, occurs in manybas-reliefs and on the reverse side of numbers ofantique medals. There is no doubt that theGrinder, the Rotator, the Spy, the
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