Miscellaneous Heads.

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Sitting Sphinx, Modern, French, Andiron, by the sculptor
Plat, (L'art pour tous).
5. Crouching Sphinx, modern.
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7. Centaurs and Bacchantes, Mural paintings, Pompeii, (Chefs
d'oeuvre de l'art antique).
Miscellaneous Heads. (Plate
70.)
Angel-faces, winged, youthful heads, with a circular or disc-like
halo, are first met-with in the Byzantine style, as a result of the
acti\dty of ecclesiastical artists. In the early Italian Eenascence, tlio
rendering is charmingly naive (Lucca della Eobbia may be specially
mentioned); they adorn friezes and arches, fill medallions, and are
found in borders. They occur often on Tombs; and they are also
much used in Modern ecclesiastical decoration.
The profiles of Minerva, Mars, Apollo, frequently occur in me-
dallions.
The Skull or Death's head, the gruesome grinning relic of de-
parted life, and emblem of Decay and Death, finds its place in the
Dances of Death, at one time so popular; also on the shield of Death
(Albrecht Diirer), on Monuments, Tombs, &c. It is generally represented
in front view, and often over two crossed bones.
Plate 70. The Cherub Head, &c.
1. Cherub, Early Italian Renascence.
2. Cherub, candelabrum, Certosa near Pavia, Italian Eenascence.
3. Frame, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg.
4. Column of the Plague, Vienna, Barocco.
5. Modern, medallion, by Prof Heer, Carlsruhe.
6. Minerva, Berlin Museum, Modern.
7. Minerva, Modern.
8. Warrior, Louvre, Paris, (Baldus),
9. Mars, from Lifevre, Les Arts Decoratifs.
10. Skull, from nature.