Shortly after Atticus has found another kind of statue, double busts of Hermes and Hercules, the god of strength; and Cicero is urgent to have them for his lecture-room.
At the same time he thanks him by anticipation for some busts of Hermes, in which the pedestals were of marble from Pentelicus, and the heads of bronze.
They take busts of Necker and the duke of Orleans, a report having also gone abroad that the latter would be exiled, and covering them with crape, carry them in triumph.
Here they are assailed by the dragoons of the prince de Lambesc; after resisting a few moments they are thrown into confusion; the bearer of one of the busts and a soldier of one of the French guards are killed.
The procession advances in this way to the Place Vendôme, and there they carry the two busts twice round the statue of Louis XIV.
Mrs. Wilson, wife of a physician living in Cincinnati, has executed busts of her husband and children that are said to be excellent likenesses.
Though its firm, dry workmanship seems to be of a few decades later than Vergil's youth it may well be a fairly faithful copy of one of the first busts of Vergil made at the time when the Eclogues had spread his fame through Rome.
Wine-inspired orations that delighted his guests, portrait busts of himself in every town, grotesque catalogues of campaigns against unheard-of negro tribes inscribed even on the venerable pyramids did not accord with the traditions of Rome.
Barring a few brief intonings of the priests in Latin it consisted entirely of the sundry dumb and complicated bodily movements peculiar to the Mass.
The font is peculiarly elegant and graceful, and is a good specimen of early work.
If we were to criticise them it could only be to say, as we should say of any other performing company, that this performer was more graceful and striking in his action, et cetera, than the other.
In the Last Judgment it is a splendid God you see among a crowd of men with heads like the busts in a Roman gallery, with all the aloofness and dignity of those weary emperors.
Portraits, busts and statues of the great men of Massachusetts adorn the interior rooms.
There are in other parts of it some work in bas-relief, and heads or busts but indifferently carved.
Round about the walls, in niches, stood busts carved or cast of the ancestors of him who lay dead.
Den I busts loose, an' some Indian boys starts in to barbecue me.
But if you contrast the busts by the W doorway, or the tombstone of Pierre de Fayet, near them, with the ruder work by the first window in the next room, the reality of this advance will become at once apparent to you.
The bustsof Roman emperors, imitated after the antique, betray on the other hand the true spring of Renaissance impulse.
Round the walls, portrait-busts of the Antonine family and their successors, in sufficient numbers to enable one to form clear conceptions of their personality.
All the statues and busts in this room, indeed, are conceived in the fine classical spirit, with no trace of the coming decadence.
It contains portrait-statues and busts of the Julian Emperors and their families, and of the Flavian dynasty.
Some of the antique busts in precious stones come from Abbey Treasuries, where they were preserved and sanctified during the Middle Ages.
By the middle window, colossal busts of Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius, and a very big head of Lucilla, wife of the former.
Close to the archway, a beautiful Faustina Junior, one of the loveliest portrait-busts of the second Roman period.
R and L of it, finebusts of the Italian Renaissance, with most typical faces.
Notice how clear an idea of the personalities of the emperors comparison of these statues and busts affords one.
The =Salle de Coyzevox= continues the series, with numerous portrait-busts of the celebrities of the age of Louis XIV, mostly insipid and banal.
The =Salle des Antonins=, next, contains a fine series of bustsand statues of this second prosperous epoch of the empire.
Now, return through the Salle Grecque and the Rotonde, and turn to the L into the =Roman Galleries=, which contain for the most part statues and busts of the imperial epoch.
Round the wall and by the windows, many inferior portrait-busts of emperors of the decadence; observe their dates, and note the gradual decrease in art and truth, and the slow return to something resembling archaic stiffness.
Near these she finds a head of the poet Ennius, and busts also of Edward Everett, Washington Allston, and Daniel Webster.
Two young men, with half-draped busts and waving hair blown off their foreheads, anticipate the type of adolescence which Andrea del Sarto perfected in his S.
Some of the busts seem to justify this statement; but the appearance is due probably to the different position of the two arms, one of which, if carried out, would be lifted and the other be depressed.
Looking at the busts of Romans, and noticing their resemblance to English country gentlemen, I have sometimes wondered whether the Latin genius, just in those points where it differed from the Greek, was not approximated to the English.
Although La Souleiade dated from the last century, it must have been refurnished under the First Empire, for it was hung with an old-fashioned printed calico, with a pattern representing busts of the Sphinx, and garlands of oak leaves.
In 1661 the galleries of York House were famous for the antique busts and statues that had belonged to Rubens on his visit to this country, when he painted James I.
He executed also busts of Cromwell, Wren, and Milton.
In their breadth of conception these busts of Rodin's have something of the monumental in them.
There are busts in plaster, in bronze, in marble and in sand-stone, heads and masks in terra cotta.
There are among these busts some of wonderful craftsmanship, marbles that are like pure and perfect antique cameos.
The Corporation buildings, a blend of the Scots Baronial and French Gothic styles, contain busts of several Scottish sovereigns a statue of Robert Burns, and Sir Noel Paton's painting of the "Spirit of Religion.
His first contributions to the Paris Salon (1860) were bustsof "The Countess de B.
Busts of Eugene and Marlborough, face to face, in armour, &c.
Busts of Prince Eugene and Marlborough in armour, face to face.
Busts of King and Queen facing each other; the King laureate; the Queen wearing coronet.
Jugate bustsof King in armour, and Queen draped, r.
Busts of King, Queen and Prince similar to those on Nos.
Busts of King and Queen, as Greek Sovereigns, jugate r.
Busts of George, in armour, and Anne, draped, facing each other.
Jugate busts of James in armour, and Clementina, draped, r.
Seven busts in profile of the Royal children, the Prince of Wales in centre l.
Chantrey was soon in London again to study at the Royal Academy; and next time he returned to Sheffield he advertised himself as ready to model plaster bustsof his townsmen, as well as paint portraits of them.
Flaxman saw and admired this head at the Academy Exhibition, and recommended Chantrey for the execution of the busts of four admirals, required for the Naval Asylum at Greenwich.
Here are also to be seen some busts and antique vases.
Tanner retreats to the wall between the busts and pretends to study the pictures.
If Jack loved a woman, I would not compare her to a boa constrictor in his presence, however much I might dislike her [he sits down between the busts and turns his face to the wall].
The busts were presented to the president, and their bearers, a pair of poissardes, insisted on giving him the republican embrace, in sign of fraternization.
The worthy treasurer had retired, seizing on such articles as were most within reach; and when I called upon him with my resignation, I had the pleasure of seeing my own busts handsomely lining the walls of the toothdrawer's passage.
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