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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
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Nineteenth Century | ||
Harpy Tomb | British Museum | 1838 |
Ludovisi Throne | Rome | 1886 |
Herakles shooting | Munich | 1811 |
Herakles and the apples of the Hesperides | Olympia | 1876 |
Charioteer | Delphi | 1896 |
Eleusinian Deities | Athens | 1859 |
Amazon | Berlin | 1868 |
Monument of Dexileos | Athens | 1863 |
Hermes of Praxiteles | Olympia | 1877 |
Hermes of Andros | Athens | 1833 |
Charioteer (Mausoleum) | British Museum | 1857 |
Mausolus | British Museum | 1857 |
Demeter (Knidus) | British Museum | 1858 |
Column-Drum (Ephesus) | British Museum | 1871 |
Hypnos | British Museum | 1855 |
Apoxyomenos | Rome | 1849 |
Sophocres | Rome | about 1839 |
Winged Victory | Louvre | 1863 |
Eubuleus (?) | Athens | 1885 |
Venus of Melos | Louvre | 1820 |
Battle of the gods and giants (Pergamon) | Berlin | 1879-80 |
Diadumenos (Delos) | Athens | 1894 |
"Athena thinking" | Athens | 1888 |
Dancing Faun | Naples | 1830 |
Warrior (Delos) | Athens | 1882 |
Silenos | Athens | 1862 |
Boxer resting | Rome | 1885 |
Augustus Cæsar | Rome | 1863 |
Young Apollo | Berlin | about 1880 |
Young Dionysos | Rome | 1881 |
Nereids | British Museum | 1838 |
Nike of Paionios | Olympia | 1875 |
Apollo and the Omphalos | Athens | 1862 |
Marsyas (after Myron) | Rome | 1823 |
Venus — Esquilene | Rome | 1874 |
It appears that of the seventy-six most famous monuments there were found:
In the fifteenth century or earlier | 3 | statues |
In the sixteenth century | 16 | statues |
In the seventeenth century | 5 | statues |
In the eighteenth century | 17 | statues |
In the nineteenth century | 35 | statues |
Total | 76 | statues |
The statistics of a list of all statues would not Serve our purpose as well as this enumeration, which relates only to the most celebrated works. The men of the Renaissance knew barely a score of the great statues. Roman copies of Greek originals were known to them, and a few of the great originals themselves. But how few they were