I need not here discuss the reasons which may have led him to add the male attributes to a properly female type.

For our present purpose the important fact is that he could do it.

Here is proof that, once at least, the supremacy of the dominant conventional art of the Empire could be rudely broken down.[1] [Footnote 1: For the details of the temple and pediment see _Vict.

Hist.
Somerset_, i.

229 foll., and references given there.