Three Vassar Girls in Italy : a Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Classic Lands
Three Vassar Girls in Italy : a Holiday Excursion of Three College Girls Through the Classic Lands
Elizabeth W Elizabeth Williams Champney
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Nat electrified us all by his discovery that these busts were AGRIPPINA. adorned with movable marble wigs ; and Mr. Hathaway explained that the empresses had their busts sculptured in this way so that when the prevailing fashion in hair-dressing changed, another style could be substituted. A seated statue of Agrippina, wife of Germanicus and mother of OLD ROME. ^n Caligula, particularly struck me, — a noble woman, whom we must ad- mire for her virtues and pity for her misfortunes. We found Virg...il calmly sweet, a realization of the poet and lover of Nature. VIRGIL. Uncle Jonah seemed plunged in profound meditation; he turned to Mr. Hathaway and asked, "The sculptors of antiquity were usually men, were they not ? " Mr. Hathaway replied that he had never heard of a woman among the ancient sculptors, but that Harriet Hosmer held a prominent 114 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN ITALY. place among the modern ones. Uncle Jonah was not satisfied. " I have never liked the plan of your having your statue carved by a woman, Phoebe," he grumbled ; " it is sure not to be satisfactory." And so it was agreed that before the winter is over we are to run down to the Count s villa and take a look at the excavations.
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