An outline history of sculpture for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous illustrations (1893)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 114
nversation often il-luminate the plainestfaces with a rare beau-ty ; therefore the aimof portraiture should be to give the very most and best thatcan be imagined as coming to the face which is reproduced.I can speak of but a few of the almost numberless Romanportrait sculptures. This statue of… … Fig. 69.—Statue of Augustus. PORTRAIT SCULPTURE. 103 explained. At the same time the whole work is full ofstrength and dignity, which comes from the character of theman himself, and is in no sense dependent on all the emblemsof his rank and power, with which the dress is loaded (Fig. 69).This…
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