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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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rife amongst the Phoeni-cians and Jews. The Minotaur occurs on the coins of Cnossus,once a flourishing city on the north coast ofCrete. DeKay eulogizes the group as calm and noblewithout pushing nobility to the point n\ superhu-man power. Thus the hero is not a magician or:n the point of whose sword issues aforce that -lay- the den; her IS he a man, doing easily what no man could, lie is a powerful hero by reason Of his mind, which has trained his body bo that it can defeat untrained brawn and muscle, mind which has dug the copper and tin,and ca-t the broii/e s\\(,rd to aid him in the strug-gle against the brute forces of nature. Mis stride >s him erect against the heavy onslaught of the hull man, and he prevents the latter from throwing him, by seizing one great bovine ear and forcing the monster back of the perpendicular. In vain does the latter strike with his left leg behind theheros right knee, at the spot the wrestler tries tohit, in order to bring his opponent down. In vain
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Zbc Barge Collection 187 in- clutches the latters body with both hands, in the effort to get a lock round the torso. Thesous hold> him ^ii where he wants him, and pauses coolly toselect the exad spol where he will bury his bladehalf way to the hilt. \> in the Centaur group, so here, the hero winswith his brain-, not his brawn, having mast<his foes before administering the fatal stroke. The Jaguar Devouring a Hare (3098) isanother chef deeuvre. It was first shown in bronzeat the Universal Exposition, from which it wasIn by the government for the Luxembourgcollection, and has been transferred to the Louvre.The great cat is intent upon his prey, which lieslimp and tragic in strong contrast to the pow-erful jaws which break its back. Every muscle ense with the operation of eating — the tailstiffens, the spine undulates, the ears flatten, the rils dilate with ferocious energy. k The Jaguar and the Hare represents thewhole family of felines at their repasts, with thepossible exce

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