This beautiful representation of the gentle goddess of night in the
Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican, was found in the ruins of Hadrian’s
Villa, on the Tiber. Diana, in a very graceful attitude, with head
bowed and hands outstretched, rapturously gazes at her sleeping lover.
The forearms are modern, but the restoration is in admirable keeping
with the motive and is undoubtedly correct.
[Illustration]
Sleeping Ariadne.
“_High upon the hill of Drios,
As the day began to waken,
All alone sat Ariadne,
Watching, weary and forsaken.
And with sighing of the pine-trees
By the low wind gently shaken,
All day long in mournful snatches
Rose the plaint of Ariadne,
Watching, weary and forsaken._”
--THOMAS DAVIDSON.