There is a grace and ease in the modelling, an elegance, a variety, to which Asiatic art, left to itself, never attained.

The style, however, is not that of Greece at its best, but of archaic Greece.

There is something too much of exact symmetry, both in the disposition of the groups and in the arrangement of the accessories; nay, even the very folds of the garments are over-stiff and regular.

All is drawn in exact profile; and in the composition there is too much of balance and correspondence.

Still, a new life shows itself through the scenes.