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Catalogue of casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889)
Catalogue of casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology - 1889 Author:Fitzwilliam Museum 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: Head of Barbarian. Marble. British Museum. Found in the Forum of Trajan, Rome (called "Deoebalus" and "Thume- licus"). Possibly formed part of the adornments of ... more »some Roman trophy erected to celebrate victories over the Germans. Spec. of Anc. Sculpture, n. 49. Friederichs-Wolters, 1567. 525. Dying Alexander (so-called). Marble. Florence. ' Restored: Bust from middle of neck, top and back of head, . ' lower half of nose. Compared with the heads of some of the dying giants in the altar frieze from Pergamon, it shows resemblances which fix it as belonging to their school and time. Muller-Wieseler, n. PI. 39, 160. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles, p. 300. Arch. Zeit. 1880, p. 162. Friederichs-Wolters, 1417. GALLERY D. In this gallery the series of representations of Aphrodite is continued down to the " Venus di Medici;" on the visitors' left are massed together the most important specimens of the art of the schools of Pergamon and Rhodes. The former is represented by a number of small statues reproducing monuments dedicated by Attalus at Athens in commemoration of his victory over the Gauls (b.c. 241), and by the famous Dying Gaul of the Capitol (probably a reproduction from the larger group at Pergamon itself). To this school also belong the great reliefs representing the Gigantomachia (fight of giants and gods) which decorated a colossal altar at the same city. The school of Rhodes is represented by the famous group of Laocoon. The relation between this school and that of Pergamon may be easily seen when we compare the head of Laocoon with the head of a bearded giant (No. 539) from the Pergamene frieze. The statues in the other section of the gallery (No. 554, etc.) belong to the period of Graeco-Roman art: and among the most interesting of these are the works of t...« less