Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 392
Donatellosbronze eagle at Padua seems exaggerated and provincial.Truly does Wickhoff say of the Roman eagle that itremains * Phot. Anderson, 1850; Studniczka, Tropaeum Traiani,Fig. 55. According to Studniczka, the familiar slab walled intothe Torre di Nerone, near the Forum of Trajan, is a… … THE PRINCIPATE OF TRAJAN 231 unsurpassed at the present time, notwithstanding all theattempts of the Renaissance to produce something similar.The motive of the eagle in the wreath, familiar as it is toRoman art, is here entirely created afresh by an originalaitist. As a rule, the eagle sits in the…
Sculpture, Roman · Sculpture, Greco-Roman
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