The British Museum Author:Henry Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter V. STATUES. Although, in the chapter of this work which relates to the early history of sculpture, several statues in the Townley Gallery have been... more » referred to, either as the probable works of early artists, or as copies from admired originals, yet there are, in truth, but two figures in the collection which have the sculptor's name attached to them; and they are both-by the same person, Marcus Cossutius Cerdo, the freed- man of Marcus. The Baron de Stosch, after a diligent search into the most celebrated repositories in Europe, could find but six statues and two busts which bore the artists' names; and it is remarkable how few, designated by such inscriptions, are mentioned by Pausanias, though he has named the artists of so many statues, that it seems fair to conclude that he must have got some of his intelligence at least from inscriptions. The statues, bearing the artists' names, enumerated by De Stosch, are—1. The group called Papirius and his Mother, in the garden of the Ludovisi Palace at Rome, inscribed " Menelaus, the Scholar of Ste- phanus, made this:" 2. The celebrated torso of the Belvedere, by Apollonius the son of Nestor of Athens2: 3. The Farnese Hercules, the work of GLYCON3: 4. The Gladiator of the Borghese collection, by Aoasias the Ephesian, now in the Louvre Gallery, No. 2624 : 5. The Esculapius of the Ve- rospi Palace, by Assalectus 5 ; and, 6. The term in the Montalto Gardens, by Eubulus, the son of Praxiteles". The two busts, both in the Albani collection, were by two different sculptors of the name of 1 MENEAAO2 2TEANOT MA6HTH2 EDOIEI. 8 AFIOAAONIOS NE2TOPO2 A9HNAIOS EnOIEI. The figure is engraved in the Museo-Pio-Ciementino, torn. iii. pi. x. 3 TATKON ASHNAIOS EHOIE1. The rest which are known upon ancient statues in the diff...« less