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of success; he is forced back upon his haunches beyond his just
balance, his body is deprived of its resistance by the overpowering
efforts of his antagonist, and he is agonized with the pain with
which, as well as by violence, his back is more than naturally bent.
An ample drapery, falling in rich folds behind the Greek, fills up
the composition of the tablet, and combines and harmonizes the
whole group.
Mr. Corbould, whose minute examination of these sculptures,
while making the drawings for this work, has given him more than
usual opportunities of estimating their merits, considers this " a
remarkably grand, fine composition, uniting all the higher qualifica-
tions of art; there is a great display of anatomical knowledge, a
happy union of strength with elegance of form, violent exertion
without extravagance of action, and the lines formed by the com-
bination of the various parts are all in such perfect harmony, that
the eye rests content upon the whole, there being no part objec-
tionable or offensive."
This Metope has not suffered much since the time of Stuart,
but most materially between that and Carrey's. Then both heads
were perfect, more of the right arm, and the whole of the right leg
of the Greek remained, and enough of the left arm of the Centaur,
to correct the erroneous notion that it had been tied behind him.
This Metope was the twenty-seventh on the south side of the
Temple, and is engraved in Stuart, Vol. II. Chap. I. PI. x. Bur-
row, Vol. I. Metope vn. Bronstedt, Liv. II. PI. lvii. No. 27.
of success; he is forced back upon his haunches beyond his just
balance, his body is deprived of its resistance by the overpowering
efforts of his antagonist, and he is agonized with the pain with
which, as well as by violence, his back is more than naturally bent.
An ample drapery, falling in rich folds behind the Greek, fills up
the composition of the tablet, and combines and harmonizes the
whole group.
Mr. Corbould, whose minute examination of these sculptures,
while making the drawings for this work, has given him more than
usual opportunities of estimating their merits, considers this " a
remarkably grand, fine composition, uniting all the higher qualifica-
tions of art; there is a great display of anatomical knowledge, a
happy union of strength with elegance of form, violent exertion
without extravagance of action, and the lines formed by the com-
bination of the various parts are all in such perfect harmony, that
the eye rests content upon the whole, there being no part objec-
tionable or offensive."
This Metope has not suffered much since the time of Stuart,
but most materially between that and Carrey's. Then both heads
were perfect, more of the right arm, and the whole of the right leg
of the Greek remained, and enough of the left arm of the Centaur,
to correct the erroneous notion that it had been tied behind him.
This Metope was the twenty-seventh on the south side of the
Temple, and is engraved in Stuart, Vol. II. Chap. I. PI. x. Bur-
row, Vol. I. Metope vn. Bronstedt, Liv. II. PI. lvii. No. 27.