The book The Venus Di Milo, Its History And Its Art was written by author Del Mar, Alexander, 1836-1926 Here you can read free online of The Venus Di Milo, Its History And Its Art book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Venus Di Milo, Its History And Its Art a good or bad book?
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Bernard Lange. They all persist in regarding her merely as a type of female loveliness; whereas, it can hardly be doubted that she embodied a religious ideal, which, for at least several centuries, was worshipped as the Matrem Deorum. Hearing these details in mind and remembering also the low type of religion that prevailed during the early Byzantine aera, when the bishop of Rome anointed the image of Phocas the murderer, and worshipped him as a divinity, it is difficult to resist the convictio...n that the Venus di Milo was originally, as suggested by the Count Marceltus, a Panagia, or Matrem Deorum, her head encircled by the sacred halo, and holding in her arms the divine Ies, or Iacchus. Pausanias and Lanciani — antiquarians separated by sixteen centuries of time — both assure us that it was a common custom of the Greeks and Romans, as we know it was afterwards of the medievals, to change the inscriptions upon the ancient statues and even to alter the statues, in accordance with the mutations of their national re- I'll I \ l'\ 'I - !
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