Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 96
his subject alittle further and to consider the statue,Plate XIII. This marble is in the Louvre,representing a Roman who has not yetreached his full stature, indeed, and whostill wears the bulla or hanging locket inwhich (or in its contents) there lay somesuperstition of good luck, but who… … Plate XIII.—PORTRAIT STATUE OF A ROMAN YOUTH. LOUVRE MUSEUM. The Roman Empire and Early Egypt when the bulla was abandoned and theyoung man was thought to have reachedthe age of discretion. Of course it is en-tirely unknown who is the person rep-resented. We are concerned only with thestrong…
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