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PORTRAIT-STATUES.
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Greek chisel of about the third century B.C. The modern restoration of this
head, with the nose and hair-dress of the Apollo Belvedere, however, dispels
much of the effect that the marble originally had, and which is best to be seen
in those casts where the offending adjuncts have been removed.
In many respects similar to the Apollo Belvedere, and nearly enough like
it in artistic conception to be its sister, is that celebrated Artemis, known as
the Diana of Versailles. Her drapery and sandals, like those of the Pergamon
frieze, show her connection with the works of this age and time ; and her simi-
larity in pose to the Dionysos of the Great Altar has already been pointed
out.
As already noticed, portraiture, during the Hellenistic age, was brought to a
Fig. 257. Marble Statue of a Seated Lady, probably a Portrait. Museo Torlonia. Rome.
high degree of perfection, doubtless furnishing many motives which were used
with modifications in Roman times. The pearl of the Torlonia Collection at
Rome is the majestic statue of a seated lady (Fig. 257), which, judging from its
style, belongs to the very opening years of this age, or about the latter part of
the fourth century B.C. It seems to belong to that type, after the pattern of
Which ladies of Roman times frequently had themselves represented. This
beautifully simple, but grand statue in Pentelic marble, was discovered, head-
less, in the Circus Maxentius at Rome, in 1824, where it evidently had been
used by late builders to decorate the spina of their race-course.I21? Its site
was so near to the channels by which the water was carried off, that doubtless,
after the circus fell to ruin, the statue was exposed to that destructive element,
thus losing much of the surface-finish which its fine composition would lead us
627
Greek chisel of about the third century B.C. The modern restoration of this
head, with the nose and hair-dress of the Apollo Belvedere, however, dispels
much of the effect that the marble originally had, and which is best to be seen
in those casts where the offending adjuncts have been removed.
In many respects similar to the Apollo Belvedere, and nearly enough like
it in artistic conception to be its sister, is that celebrated Artemis, known as
the Diana of Versailles. Her drapery and sandals, like those of the Pergamon
frieze, show her connection with the works of this age and time ; and her simi-
larity in pose to the Dionysos of the Great Altar has already been pointed
out.
As already noticed, portraiture, during the Hellenistic age, was brought to a
Fig. 257. Marble Statue of a Seated Lady, probably a Portrait. Museo Torlonia. Rome.
high degree of perfection, doubtless furnishing many motives which were used
with modifications in Roman times. The pearl of the Torlonia Collection at
Rome is the majestic statue of a seated lady (Fig. 257), which, judging from its
style, belongs to the very opening years of this age, or about the latter part of
the fourth century B.C. It seems to belong to that type, after the pattern of
Which ladies of Roman times frequently had themselves represented. This
beautifully simple, but grand statue in Pentelic marble, was discovered, head-
less, in the Circus Maxentius at Rome, in 1824, where it evidently had been
used by late builders to decorate the spina of their race-course.I21? Its site
was so near to the channels by which the water was carried off, that doubtless,
after the circus fell to ruin, the statue was exposed to that destructive element,
thus losing much of the surface-finish which its fine composition would lead us