Roman art : some of its principles and their application to early Christian painting (1900)
Wickhoff, Franz, 1853-1909, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : W. Heinemann ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 128
ROMAN ART 62 harmoniously toned and the iris skilfully painted, these busts must have conveyed a perfectly lifelike impression which, however, could not be unpleasant because the masterly chiselling had brought out only … Fig. 2i.— Lady with Headdress of the Flavian Period time, notwithstanding all (after Bernoulli, Icon. II. pi. 13) the attempts of the Re- nascence to produce something similar (Plate IX.). The motive of the eagle in the wreath, familiar as it is to Roman art, is here entirely created afresh by an…
Art, Roman · Christian art and symbolism
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