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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
| Nineteenth Century | ||
| Harpy Tomb | British Museum | 1838 |
| Ludovisi Throne | Rome | 1886 |
| Herakles shooting | Munich | 1811 |
| Herakles and the apples of the Hesperides | Olympia | 1876 |
| Charioteer | Delphi | 1896 |
| Eleusinian Deities | Athens | 1859 |
| Amazon | Berlin | 1868 |
| Monument of Dexileos | Athens | 1863 |
| Hermes of Praxiteles | Olympia | 1877 |
| Hermes of Andros | Athens | 1833 |
| Charioteer (Mausoleum) | British Museum | 1857 |
| Mausolus | British Museum | 1857 |
| Demeter (Knidus) | British Museum | 1858 |
| Column-Drum (Ephesus) | British Museum | 1871 |
| Hypnos | British Museum | 1855 |
| Apoxyomenos | Rome | 1849 |
| Sophocres | Rome | about 1839 |
| Winged Victory | Louvre | 1863 |
| Eubuleus (?) | Athens | 1885 |
| Venus of Melos | Louvre | 1820 |
| Battle of the gods and giants (Pergamon) | Berlin | 1879-80 |
| Diadumenos (Delos) | Athens | 1894 |
| "Athena thinking" | Athens | 1888 |
| Dancing Faun | Naples | 1830 |
| Warrior (Delos) | Athens | 1882 |
| Silenos | Athens | 1862 |
| Boxer resting | Rome | 1885 |
| Augustus Cæsar | Rome | 1863 |
| Young Apollo | Berlin | about 1880 |
| Young Dionysos | Rome | 1881 |
| Nereids | British Museum | 1838 |
| Nike of Paionios | Olympia | 1875 |
| Apollo and the Omphalos | Athens | 1862 |
| Marsyas (after Myron) | Rome | 1823 |
| Venus — Esquilene | Rome | 1874 |
It appears that of the seventy-six most famous monuments there were found:
| In the fifteenth century or earlier | 3 | statues |
| In the sixteenth century | 16 | statues |
| In the seventeenth century | 5 | statues |
| In the eighteenth century | 17 | statues |
| In the nineteenth century | 35 | statues |
| Total | 76 | statues |
The statistics of a list of all statues would not Serve our purpose as well as this enumeration, which relates only to the most celebrated works. The men of the Renaissance knew barely a score of the great statues. Roman copies of Greek originals were known to them, and a few of the great originals themselves. But how few they were
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