Identifier: romansculpturefr00stro (find matches)
Title: Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Strong, Eugénie Sellers
Subjects: Sculpture, Roman Sculpture, Greco-Roman
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ly in-fluenced by the captives of Trajanic art (p. 228 f). Thewoman sorrowfully leaning her cheek against her left hand^and the woman with her hands clasped in front of her indignified grief, are especially worthy of notice. Superb,too, is the head, with its noble features, already rigid indeath, of the decapitated German on Plate 69B. In SceneLXIII. (Plate 72a) two Romans despatch a German chief.The group recalls in movement and pose the death ofDecebalus on the Trajan column. In Scene LXIV.(Plate 74a) is a fine group, with an oak-tree as centre, ofthe capture and execution of German chiefs. The skilfultransition from the galloping cavalry to the standingsoldiers who present to Marcus the heads of the slainenemy should be noted (LXVI., Plate 75). In SceneLXXIII. (Plate 82) another fine group of female captivesappears among the train of hostages. In Scene LXXV.(Plate 83) the emperor is seen pouring the libation overthe flame of an altar. The composition of the auxiliary ri,AIK T.WWIII
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