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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Where had she walked thus and whither was she going? Doctor Norbert Hanold, docent of archaeology, really found in the relief nothing noteworthy for his science. It was not a plastic production of great art of the antique times, but was essentially a Roman genre production and he could not explain what quality in it had aroused his attention; he knew only that he had been attracted by something and this effect of the first view had remained unchanged since then. In order to bestow a name upon the piece of sculpture, he had called it to himself Gradiva, the girl splendid in walking. That was an epithet applied by the ancient poets solely to Mars Gradivus, the war-god going out to battle, yet to Norbert it seemed the most appropriate designation for the bearing and movement of the young girl, or, according to the expression of our day, of the young lady, for obviously she did not belong to a lower class but was the daughter of a nobleman, or at any rate was of honorable family. Perhaps - her appearance brought the idea to his mind involuntarily - she might be of the family of a patrician asdile whose office was connected with the worship of Ceres, and she was on her way to the temple of the goddess on some errand. Yet it was contrary to the young archaeologist's feeling to put her in the frame of great, noisy, cosmopolitan Rome. To his mind, her calm, quiet manner did not belong in this complex ma chine where no one heeded another, but she be longed rather in a smaller place where every one knew her, and, stopping to glance after her, said to a companion, That is Gradiva - her real name Norbert could not supply - the daughter of she walks more beautifully than any other girl in our city.

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Publié par	Forgotten Books
Date de parution	27 novembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780243818501
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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GRADIVA stead mak ng a penc l sketch her on a sh et paper as is done in our day hadﬁxed her in a clay model quickly from l fe as she pa sed on the street a tall slightﬁsoft wavgure whose hair a folded kerchief almost completely bound her rather slender fa e was not at all dazzling and the desire to produce such e fect was equally foreign to her in the del cate y formed features was expressed a nonchalant equa imity in regard to what was occ rring about her her eye which gazed calmly ahead bespoke absolutely unimpaired powers vision and thoughts quietly withdrawn So the young woman was fascinating not at all because of plas tic beauty form but because she possessed something rare in antique sculpture a rea stic simple maidenly gra e which gave the impression imparting life the relief This was e fected chieﬂthe movement represented in the picy by ture With her head bent forward a little she held slightly raised in her left hand so that her sandaled feet became visible her garment whi h fell in exceedingly voluminous folds fro her throat to her ankles The left foot advanced and the right about to follow touched the ground on y lightly with the tips the toes while the sole and heel were raised almost vertical y This movement produced a double impression ex gil y and conﬁdent composure

RADIVA and the like pois combined with aﬁrm step lent her the peculiar race Where shewalked thus and whither was she goingDdocent ofoctor Norbert Hanold rchaeology really found in the relief nothing noteworthy for his science It not a plastic production great art the antique t mes but was ess ntially aRoman production and he could not explain what quality in it had aroused his attent on he knew only that he had been attracted by somethi g and t is e ect of theﬁncerst view had remained nchanged s then In order to bestow a name upon the piece of sculptuhad called it to himselfre he Gradiva the girl splen d in walking That was an epithet appl ed by the ancient poets solely to Mars the war going out to battle yet to Norbert it seemed the most appropriate designation for the bearing and movement the young gir or according to the expressionour day of the young lady for obv ously she did not belong to a lower class but was the daughter of a nobleman or at any rate was of honorable family Perhaps her appearance brought the idea to his mind involuntarily she might be of the family of a pat ician whose o cewas connec ed with the worship of Ceres and shewas on her way to the temple of the goddess on some e rand