Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 164
rt of Virtus—presenting personifications of conquered countries ; theonly one that can be identified with certainty is Africa,with her helmet of elephant hide. Nothing can surpassthe shrinking grace and tender pathos of these femalefigures, or the artistry with which the effect of a crowdis… … AUGUSTUS TO NERO 85 On the other face of the vase, we pass from thegeneral to the particular. The Emperor, seated on themilitary faldstool, surrounded by his six lictors andtwo officers of the Praetorian Guard, is receiving agroup of barbarians presented to him by a Romangeneral. The grouping…
Sculpture, Roman · Sculpture, Greco-Roman
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