Many of the sculptures belonging to the National Gallery have been
removed to the Hall of Sculpture at the Tate Gallery or to the National
Portrait Gallery. Among those that remain in Trafalgar Square are:--
"THE DYING ALEXANDER" (_in the Vestibule_).--A Renaissance copy in
Egyptian porphyry of the bust, in the Uffizi at Florence, known as
"The Dying Alexander." The bust is now generally recognised as the
work of a Pergamene sculptor, and is supposed to represent a youthful
giant. The influence of the "Alexander type" is in any case noticeable
in this fine work; a type embodying "the traces of human passion, the
imperfection of human longing, the divine despair, which attach to
the highest mortal natures because they are high and because they are
mortal."--Presented by Mr. Henry Yates Thompson.
BUST OF MANTEGNA.--A plaster cast from the bust of Mantegna in
the Mantegna Chapel at Mantua: see the description quoted under
274.--Presented by Mr. Henry Vaughan.
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