Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 440
the breast ofa young girl, who is already drooping under the mortalwound inflicted by the arrow in her side. (Plate LXXIX.) On the extreme right Niobe herself, an impersonationof majestic motherhood, framed within the archingdrapery of her uplifted cloak, presses to herself her twoyoungest… … HADRIANIC SARCOPHAGI 259 massed up like an inverted pyramid. To the extremeleft, balancing Niobe and her daughters, is Amphion infull armour, raising his shield to ward off the arrowsfrom his youngest boy whom he holds between hisknees; his effort is in vain, for the childs head droops,his little…
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![An illustration from Illustrated catalogue of the extraordinary collection of art treasures and antiquities acquired during the past year by Professore Commendatore Elia Volpi ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries [on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1917] (1917)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-illustratedcatal00volp-238-194.webp)
