struck with its correctness, determined to preserve it, if possible, as a memento of such a remarkable circumstance. With this view, he formed a kind of clay model from it, and baked it; which, being the first essay of the kind, was preserved in the public repository of Corinth, even to the fatal day of its destruction by that enemy to the arts, Mummius Achaicus.
PRAXITELES.
Praxiteles, one of the most eminent Grecian
sculptors, was cotemporary with Euphranor, and
flourished, according to Pliny, in the one hundred
and fourth Olympiad, or B. C. 360. The place of
his birth is not mentioned. He lived in the period
immediately subsequent to the age of Phidias, but
his genius took a different course from that style
of elevation and sublimity which distinguishes the
Æschylus of Sculpture. Praxiteles was the founder
of a new school. His style was eminently distinguished
for softness, delicacy, and high finish;
and he was fond of representing whatsoever in nature
appeared gentle, tender, and lovely. Consequently
his favorite subjects were the soft and delicate
forms of females and children, rather than the
masculine forms of athletes, warriors, and heroes.
PRAXITELES AND PHIDIAS COMPARED.
The peculiar abilities of Praxiteles were admirably
displayed in the Venus of Cnidus, which, with
