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English: Hermes is represented by the sculptor Praxiteles in the act of carrying the young child Dionysus to the nymphs who were charged with his rearing. On the journey he pauses and amuses himself by holding out to the child-god a bunch of grapes, and watching his eagerness to grasp them. To the modern eye the child is not a success; only the latest art of Greece is at home in dealing with children. But the Hermes, strong without excessive muscular development, and graceful without leanness, is a model of physical formation, and his face expresses the perfection of health, natural endowment and sweet nature. The statue can scarcely be called a work of religious art in the modern or Christian sense of the word religious, but from the Greek point of view it is religious, as embodying the result of the harmonious development of all human faculties and life in accordance with nature. |
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Date | between circa 400 and circa 300 B.C. | ||||
Source | Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 12, 1911, “Greek Art” Plate VI. (between pp. 480 and 481), Fig. 82. | ||||
Author | English Photographic Co. (photograph); Praxiteles (sculptor) | ||||
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