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A mystical crisis

31.
Joseph Reinach and anti-Semitism: Birnbaum.

32.
travels to Athens and the Aegean: Reinach 1996.

A tiara for 200,000 francs

33.
walking with Furtwängler: Reinach 1996.

34.
story of the tiara: Pasquier 1994.

35.
Reinach’s refusal to defend himself: Metzger, 39.

A goddess in a limekiln

36.
“I repeat today”: Reinach 1930, 251. The narrative of the debate between Reinach and Fürtwangler is drawn from Reinach 1930, 250–356.

37.
“the style of the Venus” and following quotes: ibid., 259.

Meisterforschung

38.
“have preserved … the masterpieces”: Furtwängler 1964, viii.

39.
attacks on Furtwängler’s reconstruction of Lemnian Athena: Hartswick, Palagia.

40.
“still a center of eager controversy”: Furtwängler 1964, 367.

41.
“When the statue”: ibid., 368.

42.
“disappearance of the inscription”: ibid., 369.

43.
“Not even the most ignorant”: ibid., 375.

44.
“Therefore he too”: ibid., 368.

45.
“not altogether happy”: ibid., 384.

46.
“at least a man”: ibid., 401.

47.
“lines of the composition”: ibid., 386.

An inscription reappears

48.
“if the Venus is contemporary”
: Reinach 1930, 288.

49.
“question of the date”: ibid., 290.

50.
“as if she wanted”: ibid., 312.

The patience of a saint

51.
“I admit”: Reinach 1930, 337.

52.
“previously content”: ibid., 338.

53.
“What a shame”: ibid., 340.

Lilacs and tulips

54.
Furtwängler’s later work: Briggs and Calder.

55.
Furtwängler’s death: Church.

56.
Glozel affair: Renfrew, Pottier.

57.
“looked like a dying eagle”: Samuels, 397.

58.
“saw him lying on a sofa”: Pougy, 242.

59.
“life itself is a burden”: Reinach 1980, 301. 162 “that rather chill giantess”: Grigson, 156.

VI. A Goddess with Golden Hair

Much of the discussion of Greek sculpture in this chapter draws on Bruneau.

Foam-born

  
1.
nature of Greek gods: Thornton 1997, 2000.

  
2.
“Nature is primal power”: Paglia, 57.

  
3.
sexuality and women in Greece: Blundell; Thornton 1997, 2000.

The nude goddess

  
4.
history of statues of Aphrodite: Brinkerhoff; Havelock 1981 and 1995.

  
5.
“Woman, thus fashioned, is reduced”: Salomon, 204.

  
6.
“I question”: Havelock 1985, 37.

Roman taste

  
7.
Romans and their conservative taste: Brinkerhoff.

Contrary to the general opinion

  
8.
“Beginning in 1893”: Charbonneaux 1951, 8.

A poet and sculptor from Antioch

  
9.
role of the gymnasium: Walbank.

10.
Venus in gymnasiums: Corso.

11.
Thespiae inscription mentioning Alexandros: ibid.

12.
“the alignment”: Clarac 1821.

VII. The Last Chapter

  
1.
Facial research: Gunturkun.

  
2.
Magritte quote, other artists, cartoons, ads: Salmon.

  
3.
“matronly”: Smith, 81.

  
4.
“mild merits hardly justify”: Robertson, 554.

  
5.
“placed beside the original”: Smith, 81.

  
6.
“Authors writing on nude classical sculptures”: Brown, 18.

  
7.
“planes of her body”: Clark, 138.

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