Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 420
ternal in Rome, whichis wholly characteristic of her and her own, the fountains,the song of the fountains, comes to us hardly changedfrom the Romans who, in the splendour of their pride,conceived this luxury; for it was Agrippa, the son-in-lawof Augustus, who first dreamed of this beauty and… … THE FOUNTAIN OF TRLVI 321 the three years of his aedlleship, building at his own costtwo aqueducts, a hundred and thirty reservoirs, a naumachia^several baths and piscina^ and more than two hundredfountains, which, in many disguises, for the most part re-main to us, they and their children, the…
Sculpture
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