Strength and happiness / by Richard A. Proctor.

  • Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Strength and happiness / by Richard A. Proctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The left-liand figures in each are Lapithoc, and tlie contrast between their well-developed but elegant frames and the coarser types of tbe Centaurs is worth careful examination, both as an artistic and as an anatomical study. But the two Lapithte are also dis- tinguished from each other, as are the two Centaurs. Of the two former, the one in Fig. 6 is the more powerful, but the other in Fig. 7 is more perfect. I know nothing in ancient or modern sculpture sur- passing in beauty this perfectly-developed trunk.