604 CLASSICAL ART 



Giustiniani exemplar, without citing at all the replica from the 

 Baths of Caracalla; the former exemplar is one quite arbitrarily 

 made over by the copyist, such as the thick eyelids, and it was just 

 on those faulty traits, inserted by the copyist, that Brunn had 

 based his analysis of the form, the result of which could not be 

 otherwise than wrong. We now easily see further how the same 

 Brunn erred when he wished to see a characteristic of the glance of 

 Hera in the eyes of that head of the so-called Farnese Hera, while 

 we now see in the modeling simply a copy of that way of treating 

 the eye which belonged to the period of the original. But this whole 

 field, the reconstruction of the lost plastic masterpieces of the an- 

 tique from the copies which have been preserved, is an excessively 

 difficult one, and we know well that our study is here but in its 

 beginnings. 



In general it appears to us that a thorough-going understanding 

 of Greek art as it really was, is now for the first time dawning upon 

 us, and we believe firmly in the future of our science and in its coming 

 important development. The absolute worth of Greek art within 

 the totality of the creations of the human mind comes more clearly 

 and more strikingly to view, the interest and the joy in this unique 

 beauty of the past are ever increasing, and still the eagerly pursued 

 excavations bring daily fresh material. We may well describe classical 

 archaeology as a scion of the great tree of human knowledge, youth- 

 ful indeed, but lusty and full of the promise of sturdy growth. 



