The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 100
tinoiis, after his earlyand mysterious death, are frigid imita-tions of Greek works, and havenothing in common with the realisticportraiture of Roman art. After the middle of the secondcentury, Roinan sculpture degeneratedin Italy. Though it continued occa-sionally to produce fine realistic bustsof… … FIG. 133.—DACIAN PRISONER BROUGHTBEFORE TRAJAN. Has-relicf from the Trajan Column at Rome. never Roman in anything but name,a sort of orientalised Hellenistic artflourished, that had undergone Persianinfluences. This art, as yet but littleknown, was, at least, to some extent,the source of Byzantine…
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