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258 DESCRIPTION OF THE SCULPTURES
work a copy from one of the figures in the group
mentioned hy Pliny, though it has heen thought by
good judges to be an original work."
Several other extant monuments have been
thought to be repetitions of celebrated works of
Scopas. Thus, in the Vatican, a copy may be seen
of the Apollo, dedicated by Augustus after the battle
of Actium in the Palatine temple at Pome.0 So
again, in the Bacche Chimairophonos, to which
allusion has already been made, we may have
the original from which several extant figures in
relief have been taken.11
Of the later Athenian school, the sculptor who,
in the estimation of Pliny, appears to rank next to
Scopas and Praxiteles, is Leochares, whose G-any-
medes was celebrated for tenderness of expression.
It is probable that several repetitions of this sub-
ject exist, all, probably, originally derived from the
composition so praised by Pliny.*1
There is in the British Museum a remarkable
work in relief, representing Leda and the Swan,
which has also been ascribed to Leochares. The
style of sculpture is very free and masterly, and
n The torso of the Ilioneus at Munich (see K. 0. Mueller,
Denkmaeler d. A. Kunst, i. Taf. 34, fig. E) is generally considered
to be a fragment from the same composition, and to present the
characteristics of a work of the best period of Greek art. I have
not had an opportunity of examining this torso since the discovery
of the sculptures of the Mausoleum ; but I am not aware that it
presents any resemblance in style to any of these.
0 K. Q. Mueller, Denkmaeler d. A. Kunst, i. Taf. 32, fig. 141a.
]• See Marbles in the British Museum, X. PI. 35, p. 81, Note e.
i See Otto Jahn, Archaeologische Beitraege,—Berlin, 1847,
pp. 12—41.
work a copy from one of the figures in the group
mentioned hy Pliny, though it has heen thought by
good judges to be an original work."
Several other extant monuments have been
thought to be repetitions of celebrated works of
Scopas. Thus, in the Vatican, a copy may be seen
of the Apollo, dedicated by Augustus after the battle
of Actium in the Palatine temple at Pome.0 So
again, in the Bacche Chimairophonos, to which
allusion has already been made, we may have
the original from which several extant figures in
relief have been taken.11
Of the later Athenian school, the sculptor who,
in the estimation of Pliny, appears to rank next to
Scopas and Praxiteles, is Leochares, whose G-any-
medes was celebrated for tenderness of expression.
It is probable that several repetitions of this sub-
ject exist, all, probably, originally derived from the
composition so praised by Pliny.*1
There is in the British Museum a remarkable
work in relief, representing Leda and the Swan,
which has also been ascribed to Leochares. The
style of sculpture is very free and masterly, and
n The torso of the Ilioneus at Munich (see K. 0. Mueller,
Denkmaeler d. A. Kunst, i. Taf. 34, fig. E) is generally considered
to be a fragment from the same composition, and to present the
characteristics of a work of the best period of Greek art. I have
not had an opportunity of examining this torso since the discovery
of the sculptures of the Mausoleum ; but I am not aware that it
presents any resemblance in style to any of these.
0 K. Q. Mueller, Denkmaeler d. A. Kunst, i. Taf. 32, fig. 141a.
]• See Marbles in the British Museum, X. PI. 35, p. 81, Note e.
i See Otto Jahn, Archaeologische Beitraege,—Berlin, 1847,
pp. 12—41.