Rydberg, Viktor, 1828-1895 · New York, Putnam · leaf 67
antique art, even uponits lowest step, was not quite insensible to genius in thefeatures it had to reproduce. • •••*** To the great works of art of its time, belonged amonument erected in front of the temple of Venus gen-etrix, to Tiberius, by fourteen Asiatic cities which anearthquake had… … THE ROMAN EMPERORS IN MARBLE. 31 time, to give us an idea of what the annals of beauty lostwhen that work was destroyed. Many other statues ofTiberius, raised by flattery or fear, or, as in this case, bygratitude, hate has broken to pieces; but nevertheless,we own good portraits of the heir of…
Paul, the Apostle, Saint · Peter, the Apostle, Saint · Sculpture · Emperors
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