594 * THE COLOSSAL FIGURB OF JUPITER PLUVU'A 
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part is a grepn lawn, and at a little distance, is * 
circular basin of water, behind which rises the eu 
statue of Father Apennine. 
Enciiased, as it were, in the groves, it can ‘'" 'M 
surveyed in front, and from a point of view 
by the artist, in the adjoining engraving. jf 
Elevated on a base to appearance irregular, and j) 
self lofty, at which the astonished spectator arrives 
two ballustrades that run round the basin, this Co 
at first, looks like a pyramidal rock, on which the p, 
of man might have executed some project .analog°^|^p| 
what the statuary Stasicrates had conceived 
Mount Athos, * and which Alexander nobly 
But soon he recognises the genius of a pupil and " 
rival of Michael Angelo. . pjf5' 
It was, in fact, John op Bologna, who, by an 
tion derived from the ancients, has executed 
ideal of Jupiter Pluvius. This name seems toot^ 
able to the figure than that of Father Apennine> ^ 
has been assigned to 
1 that of Father Apennuie, 
it. The style, in point of 
tude, is of the largest, and the character of 
is in perfect conformity to the subject. His _bro M 
front brave the tempest, and »com the regiop 
hoar frost; his locks descend in icicles on 
slioulders, anrl the flakes of his immense beard pier 
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stalactites; his limbs seem covered with rime, 
no alteration in their contour, or in the Ibrni ^ 
muscles. . g 1W‘ , 
To add to the extraordinary effect, about |]fSl 
is a kind of crown, formed of little jetteaux, 
on the shoulders and trickle down the ^ 
a sort of supernatural lustre, when irradiated bj. ^ 
It would be difficult to imagine a composib®^ ^^ii- 
picturesque and perfect in all its proportions. 
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* Stasicrates proposed ta Alex.mdcr, to transform 
iito a most durable statue, and one that would be 
to a world of beholders. His left hand to contain » 
witlr 10,000 inhabitants, and from die right a great tJW 
waters descending to the sea. The proposition of 
monument was rejected by Alexander, exclaiming, ‘ ^ t‘‘ 
Mount Caucasus, die TaaaU, and the Cajpian, which 
iduU be my raonumenta.’ 
