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Identifier: cu31924020498980 (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in the Roman campagna
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PrincePietro Aldobrandini, the owner of the cliff and niche andof the pedestal from which the statue had been wrenchedby the fury of the storm, and the Italian government,the owner of the shallow inlet in which the statue wasfound lying. Judgment was given in favor of the prince,whose heirs have just given up the statue to the nationfor the handsome consideration of six hundred thou-sand francs ($120,000), six times as much as the priceat wdiich it could have been purchased in 1878. It re-presents the draped figure of a maiden holding a platein her left hand and looking intently at its contents.She has been named the Maiden of Mvsterv becausearchaeologists are as ignorant to-day of her origin,authorship, name, and place in the history of Greekart as they were thirty years ago, when she first emergedfrom the foam of the sea. I have just paid her another visit (June 15th) in com-pany with two leaders of the Italian and German classicschools. I have listened to their arguments and subtle
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THE MYSTERIOTS OREEK MAIDEX FROM ANTIUM THE LAND OF NERO 361 controversy, and I have left Antiuin more fascinatedthan ever by thebella mcognita, but no nearer to theknowledge of the truth. She is not a mystery, Init atangle of mysteries. Must we consider her lovely facea )>ortrait from nature, or is it simply due to the fancy ofthe artist ? The twig which lies on tlie plate, is it froma laurel or an olive In-anch.^ Is she taking it up fromthe plate or laying it down upon it ? The roll of thickstuff near the rim of the plate, is it a sacrificial band, or ascroll of parchment, or a strap of leather.^ The littleclaws which are seen near the twig, do they belong toa pet animal, or are they the feet of a candelabrum orof an incense box (acerra) ? What impression did theartist try to convey by treating her tunic and her shawlin such a peculiar style ? That the shawl was made ofwool and the tunic of plaited raw silk ? Is the marbleout of which she is carved Parian or Hymettian ? Towhich e

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  • booksubject:Art
  • bookpublisher:Boston_and_New_York__Houghton_Mifflin_company
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  • booksponsor:MSN
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