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Title: Wonders of sculpture
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883
Subjects: Sculpture
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 12.—The Tiber. (Museum of the Louvre, Paris.) a personification of Fate, but has become the Museof astronomy, because Girardon has chosen to puta sidereal crown upon her head. A Polyhymnia,also called Study and Reflection, the head andupper part of the body of which are modern, butwhich is nevertheless admirable on account of the
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ort I?. GRECJA N SCULPTURE. 11 ?, wonderful arrangement of the draperies by whichthe figure is completely covered. A few local divinities complete the collection ofgods. The Tiber, another giant, near to whom theshe-wolf of Mars suckles the two founders of Rome.This colossal Tiber was discovered about the begin-ning of the fifteenth century, amongst the ruins ofthe Rome of the Caesars. It remained at the Vati-can, with the group of the Nile, and was one ofthe very few ancient statues which the papal citypossessed in those days. These two old menwith long beards, carelessly resting on the urnsfrom which their waters flow, are characterised bysymbols and emblems. The Tiber, crowned withlaurels, to suggest the glory of Rome, holds an oaras a si^n that his bed is navisrable ; whilst theNile, leaning on a sphinx and holding the cornu-copia or horn of plenty, is surrounded by sixteenlittle sprites, which typify the sixteen cubits of inun-dation necessary to produce a good harvest. AGe7iiiis

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