Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 270
d was not made nor createdanew. They were moods, as it were, of the City : nor canwe say of anything eternal that it was young and grows old.For as a melody is lost in a melody so in her ever-livingsoul antiquity passed into mediasvalism, into modernity, eachfollowing other in perfect and lovely… … MARCUS AURELIUS, ROME EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS 201 were, summed up the City and served for the whole worldas a symbol of it. Because it was here that Curtius diedfor the people, that Tiberius Gracchus fell in their cause,and Marcus Brutus, after the death of Caesar, spoke in de-fence of…
Sculpture
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