This poetic creation in the National Gallery, London, was executed
by Canova. The buoyant Hebe is purely beautiful as she springs away
like the joy of youth. The light drapery does not interfere with the
floating movement. In one hand she lifts high the vase of ambrosia, and
in the other holds a goblet.
[Illustration]
Ganymede and the Eagle.
“_There too flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh
Half buried in the eagle’s down,
Sole as a flying star shot through the sky
Above the pillared town._”
--TENNYSON.