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of an original which is akin to the Cassel Apollo, and to the two female
heads at Mantua and Athens,1 which seem to be later works of the
same artist. In the dressing of the hair, the shape of the crown, and
the bold sidelong turn of the head there is also some likeness to the
Ny Carlsberg head 246, the style of which is puzzling.2 But the
points of resemblance with the first-named group are most numerous,
the central parting and sweep of the locks, the broad angular fore-
head, the narrow tight cheeks, and the shape of eyes and chin. If
the Cassel Apollo and Furtwangler’s Lemnia 3 are Attic, this head
too is a copy of an Attic original of the middle of the fifth century.
The other work is a statue of the ‘ Narcissus ’ type (fig. 30), whose
right arm from the elbow and both legs with the stump were restored
in marble by Canova.4 The head has been broken off and broken
in two, but in spite of Michaelis’s objection certainly belongs to the
statue. The execution is good. The chief interest of the head is
that it is a replica with reversed posture and inclination, as is a torso
in the Munich Glyptothek.5 These two are the only large-size
reversed replicas known, though the process is not unknown in small
statuettes and gem-designs.6 The original statue must be conceived of
as a pendant to a Narcissus with the correct posture, probably a Roman
creation, but in any case not earlier than Hellenistic times.7
1 Arndt-Amelung, 12-13, and 650-1.
2 Arndt, Glyptotheque Ny Carlsberg, pls.
XXIX-XXX ; Guida Ruesch, p. 50.
3 Brunn-Bruckmann, 601 and 676-7,
with text.
4 Michaelis, p. 648, no. 1.
5 Arndt-Amelung, text IV, p. 18, 2.
8 Furtwangler, Masterpieces, fig. 128.
Reinach, Rep. de la stat. ii. 102, 3-4.
7 On the fancy for pendant figures in
antiquity, see Winnefeld, Villa des Hadrian,
p. 144.
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of an original which is akin to the Cassel Apollo, and to the two female
heads at Mantua and Athens,1 which seem to be later works of the
same artist. In the dressing of the hair, the shape of the crown, and
the bold sidelong turn of the head there is also some likeness to the
Ny Carlsberg head 246, the style of which is puzzling.2 But the
points of resemblance with the first-named group are most numerous,
the central parting and sweep of the locks, the broad angular fore-
head, the narrow tight cheeks, and the shape of eyes and chin. If
the Cassel Apollo and Furtwangler’s Lemnia 3 are Attic, this head
too is a copy of an Attic original of the middle of the fifth century.
The other work is a statue of the ‘ Narcissus ’ type (fig. 30), whose
right arm from the elbow and both legs with the stump were restored
in marble by Canova.4 The head has been broken off and broken
in two, but in spite of Michaelis’s objection certainly belongs to the
statue. The execution is good. The chief interest of the head is
that it is a replica with reversed posture and inclination, as is a torso
in the Munich Glyptothek.5 These two are the only large-size
reversed replicas known, though the process is not unknown in small
statuettes and gem-designs.6 The original statue must be conceived of
as a pendant to a Narcissus with the correct posture, probably a Roman
creation, but in any case not earlier than Hellenistic times.7
1 Arndt-Amelung, 12-13, and 650-1.
2 Arndt, Glyptotheque Ny Carlsberg, pls.
XXIX-XXX ; Guida Ruesch, p. 50.
3 Brunn-Bruckmann, 601 and 676-7,
with text.
4 Michaelis, p. 648, no. 1.
5 Arndt-Amelung, text IV, p. 18, 2.
8 Furtwangler, Masterpieces, fig. 128.
Reinach, Rep. de la stat. ii. 102, 3-4.
7 On the fancy for pendant figures in
antiquity, see Winnefeld, Villa des Hadrian,
p. 144.
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