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Title: Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ...
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell
Subjects: Sculpture
Publisher: The Baker
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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er trustworthy they maybe as copies—however fine in their indi-vidual capacity. There is a famous statuein the Vatican, occupying one of the fourcorner tribunes of the Belvedere and almostas famous as the other statue, the Apollowhich takes its name from the same courtand gallery. The Apollo Belvedere standsdiagonally opposite to the statue which weare considering here, and which is calledin some of the guide-books ^ Mercury, inothers Antinous (an absurd ascription),and now more commonly a Hermes.That statue, the praises of which have beensounded by generations of enthusiasts, owesits celebrity in great part to its having beendiscovered a good many years ago (in thesixteenth century), and to its having beenplaced in the most admired corner of themost famous museum of Europe. There isa statue in the British Museum labelled Mercury, which was not found until longafterwards, and which then passed to theFarnese family, from whose palace in Romeit was transferred to the Museum in our(30)
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Plate \II.—HKKMKS Uh IkAXI IKLKS. lOUNU IN THK KLINS OF OLVMllA ANDNOW IN THK MUSEUM THERK. WORK OF ABOUT 360 B. C. Greek Culmination and Decline own time. There is also a statue in theAthens Museum, found in the Island ofAndros in our own time; and these threepieces are so nearly alike in pose, in treat-ment, that they give the strongest testimonyto the character of the original from whichall three have been copied. The palm ofsuperiority is no longer given with una-nimity to the Vatican statue, but by someauthors to that in London, by others tothat in Greece; but all three are statues ofsuch uninjured condition and of such finishand technical quality that only the delicateanalysis of the highly trained eye and mindof the student of art could decide betweenthem, or could say whether one or anothermay possibly be the original work fromwhich the others were taken. In one re-spect at least, the Vatican statue seems thefiner conception. The trunk—the torso—is more nobly modelled, w

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