The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-17
NEW Art WORKS ARE
SHOWN TO The PUBLIC
Many Classical Marbles and
BrOnZcs Placed on View nj
Metropolitan Museum.
TWO EXAMPLES or LuNGlif
Paintings by 4. u. Davies. .loup.
Lie and Robert Spencer
Are Exhibited.

The recent accessions ~ the N,... 81
tan Museum OF Art placed upuu ....,r.
view yesterday. include all the sp.....
that were acquired by the classical old.
partmcnt OF the museum during lala Iv,.
examples OF the work OF the eielrc,rf,
century painter Longhi three r.iu'f.r.
by contemporary American artist.
bronze by Rodn. and examples Of pottery.
lares and art craftsmanship
The new collection Of classical art IN
stalled In the Boscorealc room, GsUD..
No. 10. and comprises fourteen marble.
twenty bronzes. six vases. twcnt, too
terra cottas, thirteen examples W roa
jewelry and seven pieces Of glass.
Ono OF the most interesting ~ ..
sculptures Is a "Heraklcs." u Epmau .
lief in the "archaistlc' manner Ilcr,tl.
is represented advancing TO the lsft. c-rf.
ing "A boar upon his shoulder and q crr
in his hand.
Most beautiful decorative work - hu.u
in marble table support that terminate,
at each end with "A winged monster anu
has an elaborate relief on each side
marble bust of Tiberius is said to b. o..
of the finest portraits eAtant II the Jult-
Claudius period. II is also one Of g.,
Tiberius and gives the essential nobilt,
OF Tiberiuss character. before he had b."
come embittercd by the adverse circuH,.
stances of his later life.
Among the other pieces OF special az
terest are the portraits of Matilda, WHO
may have been the nice" Of Trajar 'r
the Matilda who was Ia" wife Of H..
drian, "A head of Xeus and group ~ 'uiu'a.
ture figures representing Gr"ciau .toior'
These small figures were found In o.
tomb and are now shown together in o.
case. There il great similarity Ia IT,.
types of these figures, who have tho
pect Of guo'ues.
\ new item Of furniture in the Boz
coreala room that might be missed a.
the casual visitor II a slender bronze rod
with tripod legs that has at the tpu d.
graceful little bronze figure upon Whose
upright arm "A loose disk IL placed tn.
is the apparatus for "A game. the "ko.lu.
bus that the Romans found cutcrtal
ing at their btnuuet-. The players th..N
the dregs from their wine cups AZ '..
little figure. and II they hit the die, .t..
made 1t fall TO the ground they scored
Longhi. whose charming and u,..t...
work is less known to us than thai e.
lIepoIo, 'anLletto ana Guard, 10 dlmo-.
an echo in paint Of his cont.unpurar.
Goldoni. the dr;tmatist In his picture
now at the museum. there is the f..
flavor of the Venetian life of that tim.
The new Rodin bronze is one that N,-
never before been published" "I.a Nd.
tyre and II is tho gift Of Watson a
llckefmat. II was modelled los Rodin
many years ago, but was never publisl,ci
In bronze until last suInmcr Rod,u h.s
expressed himself as being much pleas,
AT Its addition to his gallery IN the Me.
ropolitan Museum. The figure r. ruoun,,,..
upon wooden one of tho kind Rod.
specified.
The marty shows a young por,g
Just dead. Her left knee il drawn o..
her arms stiiIiy extended with cl.ucn
fists and her head thrown backward ,,...
cushioned upon the coarse iucsh.s OF I.,.
hair. ON the neck and breasts the hln.
has thlckened into clots The. ankles
swollen as though they had been recent
bound by ropes. and her body is coar~.r,
by the sand OF the arena
The three American additions arc d..
"Girdlc OF Ares" by Arthur y ps,, a,
the ''Culebra Cut" lay Jonas Lie and pa-
pairing the Bridge" 10y Robert c
Spencer.