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The museums and ruins of Rome (1912)

Amelung, Walther, 1865-1927, Holtzinger, Heinrich, 1856-, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London, Duckworth & Co · leaf 90

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THE VATICAN 64 and of dark melancholy that recalls his love and his sad fate. It is true that the workmanship of the Vatican copy is so smooth and empty as to make it appear we have read too much meaning into this work ; but let us … Fig. 31. — Head of Meleager (Villa Medici, der the profundity of his model, he has added to it in external details ; for certainly there was no such wretchedly shaped dog beside the original nor yet any rock with the repulsively aggressive head of a boar ; probably, too, the cloak fluttering in the…

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