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LESSONS FROM PORTRAIT STATUES 71 religion of Greece simply by
epithets which define the gods and by the actions which poets
attribute to them we should risk a total misconception. We do not
possess, alas! those master- works of Phidias which render men, the
ancients tell us, more religious, the Athene Parthenos of the
Acropolis and the Zeus of Olympia; but even from reproductions
which have reached us one may divine the master's embodiment of
luminous intelligence and of sovereign power in benevolent repose.
It is to be regretted that our students do not visit more
frequently the galleries of the Louvre; I have seen more than one
high school boy there, but ordinarily these visitors are impatient
to reach the picture galleries of the second floor, hastening by
the sculpture on the first?the work of the ancients. As I have
watched them glancing about with an indifferent eye how I have
wished they would linger and lend an ear. If one has learned to
listen, these statues ranged against the walls,?the Mars which
bears, it is believed, the mark of Polyclete, the Diana ofthe
Chase, the Victory of Samothrace, the divine Venus of Melos, may
speak and in some such words as these: "Young man, you are studying
Greece in Homer and in Plato, in Sophocles and in Herodotus; do not
pass us by so quickly; we are also of this Greece. You need neither
grammar nor dictionary to understand and to love us. You need to
educate your eyes. You need to learn point by point the refinements
of beauty. Do not fear to waste your time, especially if you aspire
later to become an authorized interpreter of Greek works of genius.
The day when by long and affectionate intercourse your acquaintance
with us shall have ripened into an intimacy so close that at any
moment you are able to summon our images before y...
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