ight and shade into a kind of irregular pattern. This style ofportraiture is found throughout the latter half of the secondcentury a. d. With the advent of the third century the declinefrom the classical standard became more rapid. Roman artists,indeed, did not lose their cunning in the… … 384 ART chap, vn of the tyrant in his later years ; and the craft and cruelty of Philipthe Arabian (emperor, a.d. 244-7) are delineated with unerringtouch in the Vatican bust (PI. LXI, 6).1 It will be noticed,however, that the artist obtains his effect by simpler means thanthose employed in the…
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