Then he nodded his bearded head approvingly, and said gravely: "A well-considered work, and carried out with remarkable freedom; this mantle drawn over the bosom would not disgrace a Phidias.

All is broad, characteristic and true.

Did the young artist work from the model here at Lochias ?" "I have seen no model, and I believe that he evolved the whole figure out of his head," replied Pontius.
"Impossible, perfectly impossible," cried the Emperor, in the tone of a man who knows well what he is talking about.

"Such lines, such forms not Praxiteles himself could have invented.

He must have seen them, have formed them as he stood face to face with the living copy.