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Should Study The Horse

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Berlín equcstriau statues have been exainilied by a vetprinnry snrgeon of Potsdani named Bongert, who asserts thíit the positiou of the horses' legs ís i wrong iu all of them, iiot exceptiug the statues of the Great Kurfurst, of Frederick the Great aud of Frederiok William III and IV. He flnds the gaine faults in niauy of the paiutings iu the Berlín National gallery. In Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylouian and Persian works of art thepositionsol' the horsos are natural and right. In those of the Greek3 and Koimm.s tbey are notalways correct. The equestrian statues of thetwoBalbi, father and son, in the Naples museum have the legs of the horses in the proper position.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News