Hence, of all his works, as admitting of unconfined expression, and grand peculiarity of composition, the statues of the Apostles, considered in themselves, are the most excellent.

The present statue at the Pont Neuf is, however, a modern substitute.

The most beautiful and spirited pagan statue of the Renaissance period, justifying the estimate here made of Sansovino's genius, is the "Bacchus" exhibited in the Bargello Museum.

The first statue on the right of the entrance of the Tribuna del David is a group called "Genio Vittorioso".

There is something so striking in the appearance of this black gigantic figure when viewed from afar, and still more when you are at the foot of it, that you would suppose yourself living in the time of fairies and enchanters, and it strongly reminded me of the Arabian Nights, as if the statue were the work of some Génie or Peri; or as if it were some rebel Genius transformed into black marble by Solomon the great Prophet.

" The statue must have been more than thrice life-size, if it rose fourteen feet in a sitting posture.

[daughter of] Brâhma ...(this statue being) the nirvartana of the preacher Nâgana[.m]idi, out of the Ko[t.]iya school (ga[n.]a), the Vâ[n.]iya line (kula), (and) the Vairi branch (['s]âkhâ).

It tires a man's neck to be for ever gazing upward, and statues are less agreeable companions than human beings.

The sun in the heavens was not more unmoveda marble statue would have been life behind himnot a look or sound, not a glance, testified that he even heard what was passing.

Yet, after all that can be said against its dramatic fitness, the statue remains an impressive and majestic yet strangely human thing.

He and the Countess Arnim received a great deal, and their beautiful rooms in the Palazzo Caffarelli, on the top of the Capitol Hill (the two great statues of Castor and Pollux standing by their horses looking as if they were guarding the entrance) were a brilliant centre for all the Roman and diplomatic world.

A statue can never at any time be a very happy memorial to an actor, who does not do his work in his own person, but through his imagination of many different persons.

The statue was the natural result of the imitative faculty surveying the nude human figure in every posture of activity or repose.

Charlemagne is sitting with a mighty two-edged sword upon his knees, and a gilded crown upon his head; but the figure is badly proportioned, and the statue is a good-natured, stumpy affair, that makes one smile rather than admire.

These ruins, he tells us, were Phoenician temples, these statues are the representations of Phoenician gods.

His statues were not only the first really great statues since the Greeks, but are still (always leaving Michelangelo on one side as abnormal) the greatest modern examples judged upon a realistic basis.

The statues which are placed in niches are 1, 2. St. Joseph, as the nominal husband, and St. John the Evangelist, as the nominal son of the Virgin; the latter, also, as prophet and poet, with reference to the passage in the Revelation, c. xii.

This statue, in all probability, is the "Madonna in marble" about which Michelangelo wrote to his father from Rome on the 31st of January 1507, and which he begged his father to keep hidden in their dwelling.

These elephant statues have been a vexed point with archæologists.

The statue of Erasmus is a shabby concern.

I know nothing about letters, not I.' Jesting then about the right hand, which was vehement in action, he said with a smile to Michelangelo: 'That statue of yours, is it blessing or cursing?'

The sitting statues of Memnon at Thebes are fifty feet in height, and the Sphinx is twenty-five,all of granite.

Several statues were also gifts to the city; that of Queen Victoria, which is one of the finest I have ever seen, having been erected by the Maharajah of Baroda, and that of the Prince of Wales by Sir Edward Beohm.

Her next statue was an ideal bust of Hesper, "with," said Lydia Maria Child, "the face of a lovely maiden gently falling asleep with the sound of distant music.

It is no more so than the granite statues in the Vatican are portraits of Philadelphus and Arsinoë.