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Updated: June 13, 2025
The sculptors aimed at and attained technical correctness, academic beauty of form, sensuous feeling, perfection of details, but they lost all imaginative power. A good example of the work of this period is found in the Apollo Belvidere now in the Vatican. This famous statue is an early Roman copy of a Greek original. It represents the god advancing easily, full of vigor and grace.
Lough Owel, five miles long by two or three wide; Lough Derravarra, six miles by three or four; and Lough Belvidere, eight miles by three, all of which are in the immediate vicinity, may be considered a tolerable allowance of fishing water for one country town.
The name of the Laocoon cabinet indicates the masterpiece it contains, as also the cabinet of the Apollo Belvidere. The latter statue was found in Nero's baths at Porto d'Anzio. The celebrated torso of the Belvidere, a fragment of Greek art, which Michael partly used as his model, is placed in the square vestibule. Never was flesh so pliably counterfeited in stone as in this masterpiece.
I had some business there which was soon transacted, and early in June I went over to New Jersey to Oxford, a small place near Belvidere. This place I meant to make my base of operations for the new campaign I had been planning all winter.
The attention of the stranger is also attracted by another consecrated building on the hill slope of Belvidere, one of Irving's a "shingle palaces," painted in imitation of stone, a great wooden sham, "whelked and horned" with pine spires and turrets, a sort of whittled representation of the many-beaded beast of the Apocalypse.
"Then what an obscure pair the Apollo Belvidere and the Venus de Medicis must be." "Oh! they are dressed in marble." Christopher Staines stared first, then smiled. "Well done," said he, admiringly. "That IS a knockdown blow. So now you have silenced your husband, go you to bed directly. I can't afford you diamonds; so I will take care of that little insignificant trifle, your beauty." Mrs.
It was a pink diamond of great size and beauty, known to gem-connoisseurs by the name of The Rose of the Morning one of those remarkable stones which have a history and a pedigree, and which are as well known by reputation to diamond-fanciers as are Raphael's Transfiguration and the Apollo Belvidere to the lovers of art.
I could not fall in love with a statue, as the poor girl in Procter's poem did with the Apollo Belvidere, though I think I could with a fine portrait: how could one fall in love with what had no eyes! Was it not Thorwaldsen who said that the three materials in which sculptors worked clay, plaster, and marble were like life, death, and immortality? I wonder what Sappho was like!
Samuel Longfellow, felt a much livelier interest in the subject than he did; and injured frescos or mutilated statues, like the Torso of the Belvidere, were objects of aversion to him. Poets and musical composers see more with their ears than they do with their eyes.
Although not of the north country myself, I knew the meaning of the phrase. Garthwaite suspected that the master was nothing less than mad! Romayne took my arm when we were alone we walked slowly from end to end of the Belvidere. The moon was, by this time, low in the heavens; but her mild mysterious light still streamed over the roof of the house and the high heathy ground round it.
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