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The graceful, leaning pose and the soft beauty of the youthful face and flesh are characteristically Praxitelean.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

Later critics do not agree with this opinion, and Furtw�ngler calls the head a Praxitelean development of the type of Zeus created in the time of Myron.

From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

Compare the Cupid at South Kensington with the Praxitelean Genius of the Vatican—the Adonis and the Bacchus of the Bargello with Hellenic statues.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

The Venus of the Capitol is a Roman version of the Praxitelean statue; it differs in attitude.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Regarded by Furtw�ngler as a "Roman creation based on a Praxitelean model."

From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)