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ASIA-MINOR SCULPTORS. 669
high two torches. Tragedy and Comedy approach with gesture of adoration ;
and, lastly, comes a throng made up of Nature, as a small child, and four
womanly forms, Virtue, Memory, Truthfulness, and Wisdom, — altogether an
interesting allegory, but certainly unintelligible without the accompanying
names. The date of this relief is a disputed point, but all are agreed that it
follows the spirit of the cult of Homer developed in Alexandria under the
Ptolemies. Its artistic worth is very secondary, and the forms of the Muses
in it seem copied from the same originals to which many statues in our gal-
leries may be referred.
Aphrodisias, in Asia Minor, where are still beautiful ruins from Roman
times, seems to have furnished several masters for Rome and Italy. Zenon's
name is found on a male portrait-statue in the Villa Ludovisi: a better replica in
the Capitol is called Marcellus.I273 This artist's name appears also on a draped
female figure, found in Syracuse; a work which interests, however, less than its
inscription, in which the master- says, that, "trusting to his art, he had wan-
dered through many cities." The fact that his statues are found in Syracuse
and Rome confirms his words, and gives us a picture of the sculptor's wander-
ing about in search of occupation.
high two torches. Tragedy and Comedy approach with gesture of adoration ;
and, lastly, comes a throng made up of Nature, as a small child, and four
womanly forms, Virtue, Memory, Truthfulness, and Wisdom, — altogether an
interesting allegory, but certainly unintelligible without the accompanying
names. The date of this relief is a disputed point, but all are agreed that it
follows the spirit of the cult of Homer developed in Alexandria under the
Ptolemies. Its artistic worth is very secondary, and the forms of the Muses
in it seem copied from the same originals to which many statues in our gal-
leries may be referred.
Aphrodisias, in Asia Minor, where are still beautiful ruins from Roman
times, seems to have furnished several masters for Rome and Italy. Zenon's
name is found on a male portrait-statue in the Villa Ludovisi: a better replica in
the Capitol is called Marcellus.I273 This artist's name appears also on a draped
female figure, found in Syracuse; a work which interests, however, less than its
inscription, in which the master- says, that, "trusting to his art, he had wan-
dered through many cities." The fact that his statues are found in Syracuse
and Rome confirms his words, and gives us a picture of the sculptor's wander-
ing about in search of occupation.