61. THESEUS.

Son of Egeus, King of Athens.

School of Phidias, Athens. See No. 32.

Plutarch, Thes.; Apol., 316.

62. VENUS ANADYOMENE (rising from the sea). Presented to the Trustees by Edward William Jeffreys, Esq.

Original in Vatican, Rome.

Found at Salone, by the Spring of Aqua Virgine, about eight miles from Rome.
Sculptor,

Height, 2 feet 7 inches.
Restorations

The Goddess of Beauty, mother of Cupid, identified with the Aphrodite of the Greeks, Mylitta of the Babylonians, Alitta of the Arabians, and Mitra of the Persians. See Homer, Hymn; Herod. i. 131; Lucretius, i.; Ovid. Fasti, iv. 15, 62,143.

Till now swift circling a white foam arose
From that immortal substance, and a nymph
Was quicken'd in the midst, the trifling waves
First bore her to Cythera's heavenly coast;
Then reach'd she Cyprus girt with flowing seas,
And forth emerg'd a goddess in the charms

Of awful beauty. Where her delicate feet

Had press'd the sands, green herbage flow'ring sprang.
Her Aphrodite gods and mortals name

The foam-born goddess, and her name is known

As Cytherea with the blooming wreath,

For that she touch'd Cythera's flowery coast;

And Cypris, for that on the Cyprian shore
She rose amidst the multitude of waves,

And Philomedea from the source of life.

63. VENUS DE MEDICI (two copies).

Original in the Royal Gallery, Florence.
Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tibur.

HESIOD. Theog., 190.

Sculptor said to be Praxiteles. The name Cleomenes on the pedestal is generally supposed to be a forgery.

Height, 5 feet.

Restorations: right arm, the whole left arm from the elbow downward.

The original, of which that in the Florentine Gallery MAY be a copy, was sold by the Sculptor to the people of Cnidus, in Caria. It stood with a Venus by Phidias, a Cupid by Praxiteles, a Diana by Cephisodotus, and a group of Mars and Cupid, now in the Villa Ludovisi, in the Portico of Octavia, dedicated by Augustus to his sister. It was removed with the statues of Minerva of Lindus, in Rhodes, and of Juno, of Samos, to Constantinople. All three, with other works of art of inestimable value were destroyed by fire in the reign of Justinian, on the occasion of the riots between the Bévεrol, or Blue faction, and the Пpárivot, or Green faction, A.D. 532. The figures on the Dolphin at the base are (Eros and Anteros) Cupids, sons of Venus.

Pliny, xxxvi. 4; Gibbon, Dec. and Fall, xl., and authorities there cited.
Hor. Odes. iv. 1, 5; Cicero de Nat. Deor., 71.

The Queen of Love arose, as from the deep
She sprung, in all the melting pomp of charms.
Bashful she bends, her well-taught look aside
Turns in enchanting guise; where dubious mix
Vain, conscious beauty, a dissembled sense
Of modest shame and slippery looks of love.
The gazer grows enamored; and the stone,
As if exulting in its conquest, smiles.

THOMSON, Liberty, iv. 175.

There, too, the goddess loves in stone, and fills
The air around with beauty; we inhale
The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils
Part of its immortality: the veil

Of heaven is half undrawn; within the pale

We stand, and in that form and face behold

What mind can make, when Nature's self would fail;
And to the fond idolaters of old

Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould:

We gaze and turn away, and know not where,
Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart
Reels with its fulness; there-for ever there-
Chain'd to the chariot of triumphal art,
We stand as captives, and would not depart.
Away! there need no words, nor terms precise,
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,

Where pedantry gulls folly-we have eyes:

Blood-pulse-and breast, confirm the Dardan shepherd's prize.

64. VENUS or DIONE.

Original in the British Museum.

BYRON, Childe Harold, iv. 49, 50.

Found A.D. 1776, at baths of Claudius, at Ostia, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton.
Sculptor

Height, 6 feet 11 inches, including the plinth, 4ğ inches.
Restorations: left arm, right hand, tip of nose.

It has not been determined whether this be the statue of Venus or of the female
Titan Dione, daughter of Tethys, who, according to various writers, was the mother of
Venus by Jupiter.
See Hesiod. Theog., 353; Homer Ill. v. 370.

65. VENUS GENETRIX.

Original in the Louvre.

Found at

Sculptor, Praxiteles? This is supposed to be the draped Venus of Cos, which the inhabitants purchased from him.

Height, 5 feet 4 inches.

Restorations:

66. VENUS VICTRIX, called Venus of Milo.

Original in the Louvre, Paris. Presented by the Marquis de Riviere.

Found A.D. 1820, at Milo, an island in the Ægean Sea, the ancient Melos.
Sculptor, Scopas.

Height, 6 feet 8 inches.

She received from Paris the prize for her superior loveliness in her contention with Juno and Minerva, on Mount Ida.

67. VENUS.

Euripides, Iph. in Aul., 1290; Lucian, Dial. Deor., xx.

Idalian Aphrodite beautiful,

Fresh as the foam new bathed in Paphian wells,
With rosy slender fingers backward drew,
From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair
Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat
And shoulder; from the violets her light foot
Shone rosy-white, and o'er her rounded form,
Between the shadows of the vine-bunches,
Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved.
TENNYSON, Enone.

Original in the Pitti Palace, Florence.

Sculptor, Canova, born at Passagno in Italy, A.D. 1757, died A.d. 1822.
Height, 5 feet 6 inches.

68. VENUS. Presented to the Trustees by Charles Edward Bright, Esq.

Original at

Sculptor, Gibson.

Height, 5 feet 6 inches.

69. VENUS, Presented to the Trustees by William Mitchell, Esq., R. Thompson, Esq., J. Richardson, Esq.

Original

Sculptor, Thorwaldsen, born at Copenhagen, A.D. 1770, worked for many years

at Rome, died at his birth-place, A.D. 1844.

Height, 5 feet inch.

70. VENUS and CUPID (in Parian marble.) Art Union Prize. Presented to the Trustees by the Rev. W. Wade.

The invocation of the infernal Deities was performed with the palms of the hands turned down, and the other ceremonies were conducted in the like inverted order. Virgil Æn., ii. 153, 688; ix. 16; vi. 235–254.

Chronological Arrangement of the Casts of Statues, etc.

OF THE HEROIC PERIOD, FROM B.C, 550 TO B.C. 390.

No. 3, The Amazon; 26, 27, the Discoboli; 36, 37, the Gladiators; 32, 41, 42, 61, Elgin Marbles,

OF THE PERIOD OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, FROM B.C. 390 TO B.C. 146. Nos. 6, 7, Apollos; 12, the Boxers; 14, Boy and Goose; 33, 34, Fauns; 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, Venuses.

OF THE ROMAN PERIOD, FROM B.C. 146 TO A.D. 180.

No. 5, Antinous; 16, Canephora; 17, Castor and Pollux; 19, Cupid and Psyche; 31, Flora; 35, Germanicus; 46, Laocoon; 55, Pudicitia.

ANTIQUES, THOUGH OF UNCERTAIN DATE.

No. 1, Achilles; 2, Adonis; 8, Apollino; 9, Ariadne; 10, Aristides; 11, Bacchus and Ampelus; 13, Boy Extracting Thorn; 21, Cyparissus; 22, Demosthenes; 23, Diana a la Biche; 25, Diana Robing; 30, Euterpe; 44, Jason; 49, Minerva Giustiniani; 54, Polyhymnia; 56, Listening Slave; 57, Sophocles; 71, Youth Invoking Gods.

OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.

No. 20, Cupid; 45, Julian de Medici; 48, Mercury, by John of Bologna.

RELIEFS.

Holy Family, by Michael Angelo Buonarotti; Boys, by Donatelli, Fiamingo; Gates, by Ghiberti.

OF MODERN TIMES.

18, Cupid; 24, Diana; 28, Dorothea; 29, Eve at the Fountain; 38, Graces; 39, Greek Slave; 40, Hercules and Omphale; 43, Innocence; 47, Mercury; 50, Mother and Child; 51, Musidora; 52, Narcissus; 53, Perseus; 58, St. George and the Dragon; 59, Tambourine Girl; 60, Terpsichore; 67, 68, 69, Venuses; 70, Venus and Cupid.

RELIEFS.

Flaxman, Gibson, Thorwaldsen.

Casts of Busts.

1. ALBERT (Prince). The illustrious Prince Consort, husband of Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria.

Born at Rosenau, 26th August, 1819.

Died at Windsor, 14th December, 1861.

2. ANGELO (BUONAROTTI MICHEL). Architect, sculptor, painter.

Born at Castel Caprese, Tuscany, 6th March, 1474.

Died at Rome, 17th February, 1564.

3. APOLLO.

Original in the British Museum. This bust was obtained by Mr. Townley, from Cardinal Alexander Albani, in the year 1773.

4. ARISTOTLE (Philosopher). Preceptor of Alexander the Great.

Born at Stagira, Thrace, B.C. 384.

Died at Chalcis, Eubœa, B.C. 322.

5. AUGUSTUS (CAIUS JULIUS CESAR OCTAVIANUS, the young). First Roman Emperor.

Born at Velitræ (Consulate of Cicero), B.C. 63.

Died at Nola, 19th August, a.d. 14.

Presented to the Trustees by Master Jeffreys.

6. BACON (FRANCIS, Lord Verulam; Viscount St. Albans). Lawyer, statesman, philosopher; Lord High Chancellor of England in the reign of James I.

Born in London, 22nd January, 1561.

Died in the Earl of Arundel's house, at Highgate, April, 1626.

7. BARRY (Sir REDMOND, Knt., one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, Victoria). By Charles Summers, Esq. In Carrara marble.

8. BROUGHAM (HENRY, Lord). British statesman.

Born at Edinburgh, September, 1778.

9. BRUNEL (Sir MARC ISAMBARD, Knt.) Engineer; invented block-making machinery in Portsmouth Dockyard; designed and executed the Thames Tunnel, and many other works of great ingenuity and usefulness.

Born at Hacqueville, in Normandy, A.D. 1769.

Died A.D. 1849.

10. BUFFON (GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC, Comte de). Naturalist.

Born at Montbard, in Burgundy, 7th September, 1707.
Died 16th April, 1788.

11. BURKE (EDMUND). Philosopher, statesman, and orator.
Born at Dublin, January, A.D. 1730.

Died at Beaconsfield, 9th July, 1797.

12. BURNS (ROBERT). Poet.

Born at Ayr, 25th January, A.D. 1759.
Died at Dumfries, 21st July, 1796.

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