Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 128
s merely the reverse of the frieze of theexterior, with its processions and sacrificial scenes,was adorned with garlands suspended between bouk-rania. In the use of garlands of flowers, of flowersand fruit, or merely of foliage, the Romans were notpioneers. Garlands represented naturalistically… … AUGUSTAN DECORATION 65 the luxuriance and the variety which the Roman artistsimparted to the garland motive, and the constancy withwhich they employed it, it became in their hands ascharacteristic a feature of Roman art as it later was ofItalian. The amazing variety of the flowers and fruitthat…
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