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THE SPINA RIO.
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skill. In fact, it is only the nature of the subject which leads us to place
this beautiful work in the Alexandrian period ;1 and there is a degree of
archaic severity in the treatment of the hair which will always give rise
to a doubt whether it may not, after all, belong to the golden age
of Grecian art.2 A new Spinario of Greek marble was found at Rome
in 1874, sitting on a rock, but as it is distinguished by an expression
of great pain, as well as eager attention, it belongs probably to a later
period.
The well-known statue of a Girl playing with astragals (knuckle-
bones) is also classed with the preceding, which it resembles in gene-
ral character and design. The old Greek prototype is probably to
be found in the statue from Tyndaris, now in Naples.3 There are
marble copies in the British Museum, in Paris, Dresden, and the
Pal. Colonna in Rome ; but the best of all is in Berlin. As the game
of astragals requires two players at least, this statue is supposed to
have formed part of a group. It breathes the same charming air of
unconsciousness and simple contentment as the other genre works al-
ready noticed, which accord so well with the idylls of the period. Other
examples of playful genre style are a
Girl protecting a dove from a snake (?) in the Capitol at Rome. She
IS richly dressed, but her shoulder is bare. Her face is turned with an
anxious expression towards the snake (?), while she shelters the dove
in her bosom. Also a beautiful statue of
A chtldplaying at capita et pi/ppiw, ' heads and ships,' or, as we
should say, ' heads and tails,' in the Vatican ; and
A Boy riding carelessly on a goose, and at the same time eating a
bunch of grapes, in the Vatican.
Kekule thinks that it is a work of Pasi-
V s school, or of one of the same tenden-
of an earlier Hate.
Hrizio and Km twanjder (Ann. d. Inst.
'°76, p. 124) refer the bronze Spinario in
'»c Conservalori 1'aJace to the fifth century,
en account of the treatment of the hair.
Kriederichs, too, thinks it older than the
Apoxyomenos and ' the Praying Hoy ' at
Berlin.
J O. Muller, //. A. sec. 430. 1,
published in Bouillon, ii. 30. 2.
565
skill. In fact, it is only the nature of the subject which leads us to place
this beautiful work in the Alexandrian period ;1 and there is a degree of
archaic severity in the treatment of the hair which will always give rise
to a doubt whether it may not, after all, belong to the golden age
of Grecian art.2 A new Spinario of Greek marble was found at Rome
in 1874, sitting on a rock, but as it is distinguished by an expression
of great pain, as well as eager attention, it belongs probably to a later
period.
The well-known statue of a Girl playing with astragals (knuckle-
bones) is also classed with the preceding, which it resembles in gene-
ral character and design. The old Greek prototype is probably to
be found in the statue from Tyndaris, now in Naples.3 There are
marble copies in the British Museum, in Paris, Dresden, and the
Pal. Colonna in Rome ; but the best of all is in Berlin. As the game
of astragals requires two players at least, this statue is supposed to
have formed part of a group. It breathes the same charming air of
unconsciousness and simple contentment as the other genre works al-
ready noticed, which accord so well with the idylls of the period. Other
examples of playful genre style are a
Girl protecting a dove from a snake (?) in the Capitol at Rome. She
IS richly dressed, but her shoulder is bare. Her face is turned with an
anxious expression towards the snake (?), while she shelters the dove
in her bosom. Also a beautiful statue of
A chtldplaying at capita et pi/ppiw, ' heads and ships,' or, as we
should say, ' heads and tails,' in the Vatican ; and
A Boy riding carelessly on a goose, and at the same time eating a
bunch of grapes, in the Vatican.
Kekule thinks that it is a work of Pasi-
V s school, or of one of the same tenden-
of an earlier Hate.
Hrizio and Km twanjder (Ann. d. Inst.
'°76, p. 124) refer the bronze Spinario in
'»c Conservalori 1'aJace to the fifth century,
en account of the treatment of the hair.
Kriederichs, too, thinks it older than the
Apoxyomenos and ' the Praying Hoy ' at
Berlin.
J O. Muller, //. A. sec. 430. 1,
published in Bouillon, ii. 30. 2.