Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 155
r which followed upon their long career ofconquest, the Romans developed, somewhat late in theirnational life, a taste for luxury and splendor. The artswhich flourished under the direction of these tastes werechiefly of foreign origin, though they took on in time adistinctively Roman character. The… … Fig. 156. Eteuscan Terra-cotta Cresting. ried to a reniarkal)le, and in some cases an extraordinary,degree of elaboration and splendor. Sculpture, on theother hand, was never a characteristic medium for the
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