human
A well-considered work, and carried out with remarkable freedom; this mantle drawn over the bosom would not disgrace a Phidias. All is broad, characteristic and true. Did the young artist work from the model here at Lochias?
gpt
I have seen no model, and I believe that he evolved the whole figure out of his head,
human
Impossible, perfectly impossible, cried the Emperor, in the tone of a man who knows well what he is talking about.
gpt
Such lines, such forms not Praxiteles himself could have invented. He must have seen them, have formed them as he stood face to face with the living copy. We will ask him. What is to be made out of that newly-set-up mass of clay?
human
Possibly the bust of some princess of the house of the Lagides. To-morrow you shall see a head of Berenice by our young friend, which seems to me to be one of the best things ever done in Alexandria.
gpt
And is the lad a proficient in magic? asked Hadrian.
human
It seems to me simply impossible that he should have completed this statue and a woman's bust in these few days.