Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 240
rtality in his handindicates that life has left the fair young body. Thehighly bred lines of the face, the sweet curves of themouth, the curling tips of the hair which resemblesthat of Augustus, recall the beautiful portraiture ofthe children of the Julio-Claudian house. Nowhereoutside the Latin… … SYMBOLISM ON ROMAN TOMBSTONES 173 found at the Imperial Villa of Prima Porta, is nowin the Museo Barracco, or of that other boy, who,masquerading as Cupid, rides his dolphin so proudlyby the side of the great Augustus from the same Villa.On the right side are traces of a small Eros, present asthe…
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