Greek And Roman Sculpture : a Popular Introduction to Thehistory of Greek And Roman Sculpture
Greek And Roman Sculpture : a Popular Introduction to Thehistory of Greek And Roman Sculpture
Perry, Walter Copland, 1814-1911
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other two opened the fatal box, and seeing * Pausan. i. 24. 3. the child in the form of a serpent ( * infantem- • * Adeo momenta omnia artis capacia que vident,apporrectumquedraconem,' Ovid, illi fuere' (sc. Phidise).~Plin. xxxvi. 18. Digitized by Google ATHENE PARTHENOS. 185 and several works of ancient art. De Quincy relied chiefly on the Gem of Aspasios * for the helmet, and on the Athene Farnese for the robe ; but his theory that her apparel could not be made too elaborate and costly has no...t been generally approved. The restoration pro- posed by Flaxman,* which, in the main, we have adopted in the fore- going description, is far more in accordance with the literary notices, and with the spirit of Pheidias. We are greatly assisted in forming an idea of the general character of the y\g. 72. work by some Attic coins, and by one of king Antiochus Euergetes. There are also some Attic reliefs on votive tablets, in which the Parthenos is pourtrayed, and which illustrate in a remarkable manner the words of Pau- sanias and Pliny.^ Of still greater importance in this enquiry is the dis- covery of a Statuette of Pentelican marble^ found by Lenormant near the Pnyx at Athens, in 1859, and now in the Theseion (fig.
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