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THE HELLENISTIC AGE OF SCULPTURE.
that highly polished and over-elaborate work. These discoveries, as well as a
careful comparison with genuine datable sculptures from Greek soil, at last
have shown most clearly that the Apollo Belvedere is but a reproduction of
»>Ujl!llliiIi . .........
Fig. 256. Bronze Statuette of Apollo, owned by Count Stroganoff. St. Petersburg.
some fine original ot earlier days, and is the product of that Roman fondness
for grandiloquent display, which caused the multiplication of innumerable theat-
rical statues for purposes of decoration. The original, serving as a pattern for
THE HELLENISTIC AGE OF SCULPTURE.
that highly polished and over-elaborate work. These discoveries, as well as a
careful comparison with genuine datable sculptures from Greek soil, at last
have shown most clearly that the Apollo Belvedere is but a reproduction of
»>Ujl!llliiIi . .........
Fig. 256. Bronze Statuette of Apollo, owned by Count Stroganoff. St. Petersburg.
some fine original ot earlier days, and is the product of that Roman fondness
for grandiloquent display, which caused the multiplication of innumerable theat-
rical statues for purposes of decoration. The original, serving as a pattern for