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GREEK LION MONUMENTS. THERE Is in the British Museum A GREEK LION MONUMENTS. THERE is in the British Museum a colossal marble lion which was found near Cnidos by Sir Charles Newton (Cat. of Sculpt, ii. p. 214, No. 1350). It is recumbent and sculptured out of one block, the underside being hollowed out to diminish the weight. Its length is 9 feet 7 inches. (Fig. 1.) In the Guide to Greek and Roman Antiquities (1908) the sculpture is thus described and discussed :— ' A colossal lion which was found lying overturned on a lofty promontory. about three miles to the east of Cnidos. On the site where it was lying were the remains of a great tomb, which consisted of a square basement • surrounded by engaged columns of the Doric order and surmounted by a FIG. 1.—LION or CNIDOS. pyramid. It was evident from the position in which the lion was found that it had once surmounted the pyramid, whence it had been thrown down, probably by an earthquake. The position of the monument on a promontory was thought by Sir C. Newton to indicate that it was connected with a naval victory, and he suggested a victory gained off Cnidos by the Athenian admiral Conon over the Lacedaemonians in 394 B.C. as that commemorated. It is evident, however, that both suggestions are very conjectural. The style of sculpture in this lion is large and simple and well suited for its original position on a monument forty feet high overlooking a headland with a sheer 37 38 W. R. LETHABY depth of 200 feet and with a wild rocky landscape round it. The eyes, now wanting, were probably of glass or perhaps of precious stones • Pliny (KH. xxx. 6) tells of a marble lion on the tomb of a prince of Cyprus, with emerald eyes so bright that the fish were terrified until the stones were changed.' Notwithstanding the scepticism expressed here as to the origin of the monument, the theory is widely accepted. Although there is always a step from the best hypothesis to a proof, it is a pity, especially in popular hand- books, to give doubt too great prominence. Collignon in his account of the monument writes thus. ' Already in the archaic epoch the type of the lion was adopted for the decoration of tombs. That of Menekrates at Corfu is an instance (Fig. 104, vol.- i.). They were also frequent on Attic steles. It is most natural that the type should be selected in preference to any other for those polyandria where the State gave common sepulchre to the soldiers who bad died before the enemy. Without doubt we possess, thanks to Newton's discovery at Cnidos, the crowning sculpture from such a public tomb. According to a likely hypothesis it had rested on a polyandrion raised in honour of the Athenians killed in 394. Perhaps the lion taken from the Piraeus by the Venetians and placed at their Arsenal had been erected in Attica as a memorial of the same action. The Lion of Cnidos is the most beautiful of such lions, but that of Chaeronea must also be mentioned. No inscription was engraved on the former, says Pausanias, but all would comprehend the eloquence of such a symbol.' Sir C. Newton was not so sure that eyeballs had been inserted in the lion's head. ' I should mention (he says) that he has no eyeballs, only deeply cut sockets, of, which the solemn chiar-oscuro, contrasting with the broad sunlight around, produces the effect of real eyes so completely as to suggest the notion that the artist, here as in so many instances in ancient sculpture, preferred representation by equivalents to the more direct imitation of nature. But on the other hand we have abundant evidence to show that coloured eyes composed of vitreous pastes were sometimes combined with marble in ancient statuary. There is a curious anecdote in Pliny of a lion with emerald eyes which surmounted the tomb of a certain petty prince in Cyprus. The contemplation of the Cnidian lion in the bright and delicate atmosphere for which he was originally designed, taught me much as to the causes why modern artists fail so generally when they attempt public monuments on a colossal scale. ... WThen I stood very near the lion many things in the treatment seemed harsh and singular; but on retiring to the distance of about thirty yards, all that seemed exaggerated blended into one harmonious whole, which, lit up by an Asiatic sun, exhibited a breadth of light and shade such as I have never seen in sculpture ; nor was the effect of this colossal production of human genius at all impaired by the bold forms and desolate grandeur of the surrounding landscape. The lion seemed made for the scenery and the scenery for the lion. The genial climate in which the Greek artists lived must have GKEEK LION MONUMENTS 39 enabled them to finish their colossal sculptures in the open air, and on the very site for which they were designed : hence the perfect harmony between man's work and nature which is so characteristic of Greek art in its best time.' This seems excessive praise of a work which is not seen to advantage in the Museum: it might be worth while some day to repeat the lion out of doors and lifted high above the ground. The cost would not be great in stone and it might be contracted for by ordinary monumental masons who can do pointed work with fair accuracy. This lion seems much larger than the dimension given above suggests, and its size may serve as a standard for imagining the scale of the other lions to be described further on. I doubt if the eye sockets were ever filled; the deep sharp darks are wonderfully effective in a photograph and the forms do not look as if eyeballs had been fitted in. The architect G. L. Taylor, travelling in 1818 with Edward Cresy (with whom he afterwards produced a well known book on Rome), John Sanders (once a pupil of Soane), and William Purser (a painter), made an excursion to Chaeronea and discovered some fragments which they ' suspected to be parts of the famous Theban lion mentioned by Pausanias to have been placed over the tomb of those heroes who fell here opposing Philip,' (B.C. 338). ' My horse (says Taylor) made a stumble over a stone and on looking back I was struck with the appearance of sculpture. We engaged some peasants and did not leave the spot until we had dug up the colossal head of the lion and some of his limbs. .From the nose to the top of the head it measured four feet six inches ... A part of one of the hind [front] legs two feet two inches. Arranging these masses we decided that the attitude had resembled the one on Northumberland House. We carefully buried the masses and left them." * Taylor illustrates his account with a copy of the restoration made by Siegel in 1856,2 which shows the lion crouching on its hind quarters on a tall pedestal. In the Spiers collection recently given to the Victoria and Albert Museum is Taylor's note book, used on this tour, containing his sketch of the head and fragment of the leg. With these is a note copied out of some other book, possibly the diary of one of his companions: ' Wednesday, 3rd June, 1818. Made an excursion to Chaeronea, distant two hours- from Lebadia. Our first discovery was the fragment of the famed Theban lion about a quarter of a mile before we entered' the town; it had lain close by the side of the road and exhibited only a, part of the right cheek and a little of the mane; we dug round and found the head complete and a leg of enormous dimensions (see sketches, etc.). The execution is bold, the marble very white and remarkable for its fine grain (see Pausanias).' Fig. 2 is taken from one of these sketches. 1 Autobiography of an Architect, 1870. The 2 For this and other references see B.M. attitude snggested was standing. Catalogue of Sculpture iii. No. 2698, p. 443. 40 W. R. LETHABY The fragments thus reburied by Taylor must soon have been exposed again, and Wolfe, another English architect, who was travelling in Greece in 1820, examined them carefully so that he was able to make a correct restoration of the pose in a little sketch now in the Library of the Royal Institute of Architects. A second sketch shows the head with the teeth perfect but only cavities for the eyes. Others show mouldings from the pedestal agreeing with SiegeFs restoration. In the accompanying notes Wolfe says: ' Left Athens 9th April, 1820, sailed for Piraeus about midnight, arrived next morning on the coast of vEgina . 12, set off for Epidaurus but driven by contrary winds to a rocky part of the shore where FIG. 2.— HEAD OF LION we ancnoreci for the night. Picturesque scenery, OF CHAERONEA moM i • i i 7i • • crocus and mk TAYLOR'S SKETCH-BOOK. P drop-flowers, jumper, etc., on the-rocks [page missing], Kaprena 3, Daulis 3J-. Fragments of lion at Kaprena. The expression of the face of the lion by no means noble, the mouth too wide: not so good a face as that of the Parthenon. Nothing mannered about the head except the eyes, which do not appear at all natural—the eyeballs are sunk out. The muscles and bones like that of the Parthenon except that on the latter there is a greater sinking at the temples.
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