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| ANTIQUE STATUARY, DUBLIN. -We again enter the classical rotunda of the Dublin Science and Art Museum. It is mainly devoted to an exhibit of casts from antique subjects and Indian bronze guns, trophies of British victories over the unfortunate natives of Hindostan. Among the more prominent casts, or models, to be found in the rotunda are the Suppliant Youth, from Berlin; Apollo, Diadumenus, Vaison and others, from the British Museum; the Knife Sharpener, Tutelary Deity and Venus de Medici, from Florence; Boy and Goose, Diana, Jason, Adjusting his Sandal, Venus Genetrix, from the Louvre; Mercury (from Herculaneum) Venus Kallfugos, from Naples; Hermes, by Praxiteles, from Olympia, Greece; Antinous, Boy Extracting a Thorn, Venus of the Esquibire, from the Capitol, Rome; Sophocles, from the Lateran Museum; Adonis, Augustus Caesar, Venus of Cnidus, from the Vatican collection, and Mars, the mighty War God of the Pagans, from Villa Ledovisi, in the Eternal City. There have been additions to this fine array since the last guide and catalogue was issued by the Museum, but the figures enumerated are the leading features of the exhibition. The chief cities of Ireland have been prolific in painters and sculptors in the past, and it is to be hoped that the places left vacant by Hogan, Foley, Maclise and other fine artists will be filled by the genius of the rising generation. |
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