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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 148

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iod of the fourth century.” With the confidence of ghost- seers in a fourth dimension the critic evolves imaginary prototypes from his own misty conception of the fourth century, while the actual repetition is to be found in the Etruscan town of Caere. It is the relief from the theatre there,… … Fig. 24. — Dragons with Flower-heads ; from the Tomb of the Julii at Saint- Remy (After Antike Denkmiiler, I. pi. 15) in the treatment of the relief upon certain resemblances to the tomb of the Julii, though the pieces from Caere, which date from the reign of Claudius, display a better execution…

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