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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12408, 22 October 1903, Page 6

Professor Talbot-Tubbs, in the course of his lecture on " Ancient Art," delivered at the University College yesterday, dealt chiefly with the works of Scopas and Praxiteles. He afforded some glimpses of the lives of the two famous sculptors, and their surroundings and influences. They had done, he said, for the Greeks what Cimabue and Giotto had done for the Christian faith. Professor TalbotTubbs illustrated his remarks upon the work of Scopas by a number of pictures taken from the renowned mausoleum erected by Artemncsia. The pictures of original works of Scopas or their replicas were critically examined, and the lecturer passed to the works of Praxiteles, referring to the influences which they exerted over the sculptors of the Alexandrine and Roman schools. ' The Hermes of Olympic was dealt with at considerable length and in a deeply interesting manner. Other celebrated works of Praxiteles were also referred to and their characteristics described, together with works of other sculptors, representing the tendencies of the particular period in Greek art under consideration, namely, the fourth century B.C. - - -