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The Antaus in the sculpture is very grand; but the authorship puzzles me, as of the next piece, by the same hand. I believe both Giotto's design. Ploughing. The sword in its Christian form. It is the subduing of the bull which the sculptor thinks most of; the plough, though large, is of wood, and the handle slight. But the pawing and bellowing labourer he has bound to it! here is victory.
"Ah! my dear master, to-morrow you ought to fight like Hercules against Antaus like Theseus against the Minotaur like Bayard like something Homeric, gigantic, impossible; I wish people to speak of it in future times as the combat, par excellence, and in which you had not even received a scratch." "Be easy, my dear Remy, you shall see wonders.
Hercules and Antaus. The Earth power, half hidden by the earth, its hair and hand becoming roots, the strength of its life passing through the ground into the oak tree. He is, therefore, the Power invoked by Dante to place Virgil and him in the lowest circle of Hell; "Alcides whilom felt, that grapple, straitened sore," etc.
As the seventh subject of the first group introduced the arts of home after those of the savage wanderer, this seventh of the second group introduces the arts of the missionary, or civilized and gift-bringing wanderer. The Conquest of the Sea. The helmsman, and two rowers, rowing as Venetians, face to bow. The Conquest of the Earth. Hercules victor over Antaus.
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