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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Nineteenth Centuby 



Harpy Tomb British Museum 1838 



Ludovisi Throne Rome 1886 



Herakles shooting Munich 1811 

 Herakles and the apples 



of the Hesperides Olympia 1876 



Charioteer Delphi ' 1896 



Eleusinian Deities Athens 1859 



Amazon Berlin 1868 



Monument of Dexileos Athens 1863 



Hermes of Praxiteles Olympia 1877 



Hermes of Andros Athens 1833 



Charioteer (Mausoleum) British Museum 1857 



Mausolus British Museum 1857 



Demeter (Knidus) British Museum 1858 



Column-Drum (Ephesus) British Museum 1871 



Hypnos British Museum 1855 



Apoxyomenos Rome 1849 



Sophocres Rome about 1839 



Winged Victory Louvre 1863 



Eubuleus ( ?) Athens 1885 



Venus of Melos Louvre 1820 

 Battle of the gods and 



giants (Pergamon) Berlin 1879-80 



Diadumenos (Delos) Athens 1894 



"Athena thinking" Athens 1888 



Dancing Faun Naples 1830 



Warrior (Delos) Athens 1882 



Silenos Athens 1862 



Boxer resting Rome 1885 



Augustus Cffisar Rome 1863 



Young Apollo Berlin about 1880 



Young Dionysos Rome 1881 



Nereids British Museum 1838 



Nike of Paionios Olympia 1875 



Apollo and the Omphalos Athens 1862 



Marsyas (after Myron) Rome 1823 



Venus — Esquilene Rome 1874 



It appears that of the seventj-six most famous monuments there 

 were found: 



In the fifteenth century or earlier 3 statues 



In the sixteenth century 16 statues 



In the seventeenth century 5 statues 



In the eighteenth century 17 statues 



In the nineteenth century 35 statues 



Total 76 statues 



The statistics of a list of all statues would not SerVe our purpose as 

 well as this enumeration, which relates only to the most celebrated 

 works. The men of the Renaissance knew barely a score of the great 

 statues. Roman copies of Greek originals were known to them, and a 

 few of the great originals themselves. But how few they were 1 



