5. ANTINOUS.

Original in Capitol at Rome.

Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli.
Sculptor

Height, 6 feet 6 inches.

Restorations: the head, right leg from below the knee, left foot, two fingers

of right hand, left forearm.

A Bithynian youth, page of the Emperor Hadrian, drowned in the Nile A.D. 131. The Emperor, inconsolable for his loss, rebuilt the city of Besa, and called it Antinoopolis. He caused him to be enrolled amongst the gods, gave his name to a star, erected temples for his honor in Egypt, Greece, and at his Tiburtine villa, and set up statues of him in many places.

See Spartian Hadrian, 14; Dion Cassius, lxix. 11; Pausanias, viii. 9; Il Vaticano, iv. 74; Merivale, vii.

6. APOLLO. THE BELVEDERE.

Original in the Vatican.

Found A.D. 1503, at Capo d'Anzio, the ancient Antium, birthplace of Nero, embellished by him at vast expense.

Sculptor: probably Calamis, B.C. 440, or Praxiteles, B.C. 364. Il Vaticano, iv. 252.

Height, 7 feet 2 inches.

Restorations: left hand, by Giovann-angelo Montorsoli, born A.D. 1507. The right arm and leg are antique, but have been attached, as Winckelmann remarks, vol. ii., p. 427, not too skilfully; also i. 485.

Son of Jupiter and Latona, one of the great Divinities of the Greeks.

Or view the Lord of the unerring bow,
The God of life, and poesy, and light;
The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow
All radiant from his triumph in the fight,
The shaft hath just been shot the arrow bright
With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye
And nostril beautiful disdain, and might
And majesty, flash their full lightnings by,
Developing in that one glance the Deity.

BYRON, Childe Harold, iv. 161.

I turn my glance, and lo!

The Archer-God speeds vengeance from his bow:

Not as when oft, amid his Delian glade,

The Lord of Beauty knelt to mortal maid;

Not as when winds were hush'd and waves lay mute,
Listing and lull'd beneath his silver lute;
But like the terrors of an angry sky-
Clouds on his brow and lightning in his eye,
The foot advanced, the haughty lips apart,
The voice just issuing from the swelling heart,
The breathing scorn, yet 'mid that scorn appear
No earthlier passions mix'd with human fear-
The god speaks from the marble not the less
Than when heav'n brightens with his loveliness;
And o'er each limb th' enamor'd Graces play,
Leave wrath its pride, but steal its gloom away.

God of the silver bow, from thee
The race of hapless Niobe

Received just punishment, to teach

The sin of proud and impious speech:

Thine arrows quell'd huge Tityos' lust

And stern Achilles laid in dust

Beneath the battlemented town

Of yet unconquered Ilion.

BULWER.

HORACE, lib. iv. ode 6. By Lord Ravensworth.

See Homer, iii. 1; Hesiod, Theog.; Herodotus, ii. 156; Cicero de Nat. Deor.,

iii. 23; Müller Dorians; Flaxman.

7. APOLLO SAUROKTONOS, the Lizard Killer.

Original in the Louvre.

Found, A.D. 1770, in the Palace of Cæsars, Rome.

Sculptor, Praxiteles. Original probably in bronze.
Height, 5 feet 1 inches.

Restorations: right hand from above wrist.

UNIVERSITY OF

CALIFORNIA.

Supposed to represent the God when in his early youth, banished from heaven for having slain the Cyclop Steropes, one of the companions of Vulcan, he passed some time in the service of Admetus, King of Thessaly.

Valerius Flaccus, Argon., v. 445; Pliny, xxxiv. 19, 10; Martial, xiv. 170; Winckel

Height, 4 feet 6 inches.

mann, ii. 267, 338.

Restorations: this statue was broken in pieces some years since by the fall upon
it of Vandyke's portrait of the Emperor Charles V., of Spain. Restored
by Bartolini.

Lo a youth was seen my floor to tread,

Chaste laurels nodding round his wreathed head;
No form so fair adorn'd the age of gold,
No form so fair could spring from human mould.
Loose o'er his tapering neck the ringlets flew,
That breathing myrtle dropp'd with Tyrian dew;
White as the moon did his complexion show,
And tinting crimson flush'd his skin of snow,
As girls with purple amaranths lilies thread,
As apples pale catch Autumn's streaky red.

TIBULLUS, iii. 364. By Elton.

See Lucian, Anacharsis; Galerie de Firenze, ii. 154.

9. ARIADNE. Presented to the Trustees by George James, Esq.

Original in

Daughter of Minos, King of Crete. For her adventures with Theseus and Bacchus, see Hesiod, Theog., 949; Plutarch, Theseus; Ovid, Metam., viii. 178, Heroides, 10; Catullus Epithal. of Peleus and Thetis.

10. ARISTIDES.

Original at Naples.

Found at Herculaneum in the Villa of the Papyri.

Sculptor

Height, 6 feet 8 inches.

Restorations

An Athenian General and Statesman called the Just; banished from Athens through the envy of the Democratic party.

Herodotus, lib. viii. 79; Plato, Gorgias.; Plutarch; Museo Borbonico, i. 50. 11. BACCHUS and AMPELUS. Presented to the Trustees by Lachlan Mackinnon, Esq. Original in the British Museum.

Found A.D. 1772, at La Storta, eight miles from Rome.
Sculptor

Height, 4 feet 10 inches, including the plinth, 3 inches.
Restorations: the whole of the right arm of Bacchus.

Bacchus, the god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Phrygian youth, thrown from the back of a bull and killed.

Ampelus his companion, a
His body was changed into

a vine. See Homer, Hymn v. ; Cicero de Nat, Deor., iii. 23.; Ovid, Fasti, iii. 409.

12. BOXERS (The), or Lottatori, or Wrestlers, or Pancratiasts.

Original in the Royal Gallery, Florence.

Found A.D. 1535 or 1583, near the Lateran, at Rome.
Sculptor, Praxiteles or Scopas-if either.

Height, 2 feet 11 inches.

Restorations: the head of each; left arm, right leg from knee, left foot of uppermost figure; right arm, right leg from above knee of lowermost.

Supposed to represent Phædimus and Tantalus, sons of Niobe, slain by Apollo, and to have formed part of the group of Niobe and her children, which occupied the tympanum of the pediment of the temple of Apollo, at Rome, in which was set up by Sosius, about B.C. 60, the statue of Apollo, in wood, brought from Seleucia, and called the Apollo Sosianus. Mengs is of opinion that these are imitations of statues made at a period when taste was brought to the greatest perfection amongst the Greeks. One of the proofs adduced to displace the idea that these are boxers is, that in the statues of professional pugilists the cartilage inside the ear is generally crushed and flattened as if by blows. The ears of these figures are perfect.

See Anthol. Gr.; Ausonius, Her. Ep., 27, 28, 29; Ovid, Metam., vi., the Story of Niobe; Pliny, xiii. 5, xxxvi. 4; and the account by Propertius, Elegy, ii. 31, of the opening of the Portico of the Temple; Winckelmann, ii. 237.

13. BOY (extracting a thorn).

Original in Villa Albani, Rome. A repetition is in the Royal Gallery, Florence.
Found at

Found, A.D. 1789, at Roma Vecchia, the ancient Pagus Lemonius, on the Via
Appia.

Sculptor, Boethus, a Carthaginian. See Virgil, Culex, 66.; Cicero in Verr.
v. 14; Pliny, xxxiii. 55, xxxiv. 19.

Height, 2 feet 9 inches.
Restorations

15. BUDDHA, or Sakya.

From Rangoon, Burmah.

Carved in wood.

16. CANEPHORA.

I. Presented to the Trustees by Mrs. General Barry.

II. By Sir William A'Beckett.

Original in the British Museum.

Found, A.D. 1766, at the Villa Strozzi, near Rome, close to the tomb of Cecilia
Metella, wife of Crassus.

Sculptors, Criton and Nicolaus of Athens. They flourished in the time of
Cicero, about B.C. 60, Winckelmann, ii. 377; or, in the time of the Anto-
nines, about A.d. 150, Müller, 204.

Height, 7 feet 34 inches, including the modius or basket on the head.
Restorations: the lower right arm, left foot, and a small portion of the upper

part of the modius.

The Canephora were maidens of the highest rank at Athens, who assisted at the sacred festivals held in honor of Pallas Athene (Minerva), and bore upon their heads baskets containing offerings to the Goddess; two of these, of "marvellous beauty," the work of Polyclitus, are enumerated by Cicero amongst the art treasures of which Verres despoiled the city of Messana in Sicily. Cicero, Oration against Verres, v. 3.

In the description of the ancient marbles in the British Museum, Part I., it is said that "this is evidently an architectural statue, one of the Caryatides, which supported the portico of an ancient building," probably a tomb. The Caryatides were intended to represent either the virgins who celebrated the worship of Diana Caryatis, or females of Caryæ, a town in the Peloponnesus, which took the part of the Persians at the time of the invasion of Xerxes, B.C. 480. It was taken after a protracted siege; the men were put to the sword, the women reduced to slavery. To commemorate the victory buildings were erected, the columns of which were in the form of women robed in the style of the captives.

Moore playfully alludes to them in his fifth fable for the Holy Alliance :

'Tis like that sort of painful wonder
Which slender columns, laboring under
Enormous arches, give beholders;

Or those poor Caryatides,

Condemned to smile and stand at ease

With a whole house upon their shoulders.

:

Male figures used for similar purposes were called by the Greeks Atlantes, from Atlas, who, according to the early mythology, supported the heavens on his shoulders, and was metamorphosed by Perseus, by means of the head of Medusa, into the mountain chain in North Africa, which still bears his name. Pliny, xxxvi. 4; Ovid, Metam., iv. 630. The Romans called them Telamones from Telamon, another name given to Atlas. Vitruvius, 6, 9.

Called the Dioscuri, sons of Jupiter and Leda, twin-brothers of Helen and Clytemnestra.

See Homer, Hymn xiii.; Theocritus, Idyll xxii.; Horace, Od. i. 12; Cic. de Nat.
Deor. iii. 21; Statius Thebais, v. 440; Macaulay's Lays, Lake Regillus ;
Max Müller's Lectures.

18. CUPID (in bronze). Presented to the Trustees by John Airey, Esq.

Height, 2 feet.

See Apuleius Metam.; Mrs. Tighe, Cupid and Psyche, of which Moore sings

Tell me the witching tale again,

For never has my heart or ear

Hung on so sweet, so pure a strain ;
So pure to feel, so sweet to hear.

20. CUPID.

Original in

Sculptor, Michael Angelo.

Height, 3 feet.

21. CYPARISSUS. Presented to the Trustees by James Malcolm, Esq.

Original in

Found at

Sculptor

Height, 4 feet 8 inches.

Restorations

A youth of the isle of Cea, one of the Cyclades. He inadvertently killed his favorite fawn. Overwhelmed with grief he was transformed into a cypress-tree.

"Twas when the summer sun at noon of day,
Through glowing Cancer shot his burning ray;
'Twas then the fav'rite stag in cool retreat,
Had sought a shelter from the scorching heat.
Along the grass his weary limbs he laid,
Inhaling freshness from the breezy shade,
When Cyparissus, with his pointed dart,
Unknowing pierced him to the panting heart.

Ovid. Metam., x. 10, 6.

22. DEMOSTHENES. Presented to the Trustees by Molesworth Greene, Esq.

Original in Vatican.

Found near Villa Aldobrandini, at Frascati.

Sculptor

Height, 6 feet 5 inches.

Restorations: the hands and the scroll.

A renowned orator and statesman, born about B.C. 385. His most splendid orations were delivered to excite his countrymen, the Athenians, against the encroachments of the Macedonians under Philip, Alexander, and Antipater. To prevent falling into the hands of the latter he took poison and died, B.C. 322.

See Lucian, Encomium Dem.; Plutarch; Il Vaticano. This statue appears to embody the ideas conveyed by the lines of Milton describing Satan

To Demosthenes, as well as to Pericles, Hyperides, and others, allusion is made in the lines

Thence to the famous orators repair

Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence

Wielded at will that fierce democratie,

Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,

To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne.

MILTON, Paradise Regained, iv. 270.

23. DIANA. Called "à la Biche."

Original in Louvre, Paris.

Found at

Sculptor

Height, 6 feet 5 inches.

Restorations part of right arm and both hands, by Giovannangelo Montorsoli. Sister of Apollo; identified with the Greek Artemis, the Egyptian Bubastis, the Phoenician Astarte, the Moon.