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 270 Sculpture in the Seventeenth full of power and promise, are wanting in refinement and finish. As instances of this we may name the groups of Milo of Crotona and the Lion,* Perseus delivering Andro- meda, and the Hercules in Repose, — all in the Louvre. In the first-named, the agony of the victim in the claws of the Fig. 112. — Theseus and the Centaur. By Canova. In the Volks-garten, Vienna. lion is almost too vividly expressed ; and although the action of the muscles is admirably rendered the effect of the whole is too painfully real. Other celebrated French sculptors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Antoine Coysevox (1640 — 1720), author of the Mausoleum of Cardinal Mazarinin the Louvre : — Francois Girardon (1630 — 1715), author of the colossal groups of Pluto carrying away Proserpine and
 * A cast is in the Crystal Palace.