Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

ALTAR OF THE TWELVE GODS.

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The evidence of archaistic imitation is seen in the overloaded
ornament, executed in the freest style and in the taste of a declining
age, above and below the would-be archaic reliefs.

Altar of the Twelve Gods,

formerly belonging to the Borghese collection and now in the Louvre.
Ottfricd Miillersays of this well-known work that it is ' nobly designed

Fig. 62.

Al.TAR OF THE TWELVE GODS.

and executed with extraordinary care and diligence,' and that it is per-
haps an imitation of the jSwfxos Sw&sko. Se&v erected by the Pisistratidae
in 01. 64.1 The restorer (?) has done his best to destroy the value of
this beautiful monument; for the restoration is not only utterly incon-
gruous in style with the ancient work, but stupidly erroneous to an
inconceivable degree. This basis, too, was probably intended to

1 C). Miiller, Arch. d. Kunst, sec. 96, 22.
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