Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 586
iffly sideby side, is in the collection at Lansdowne House(Michaelis, 21). It is difficult to speculate on what thedevelopment of these somewhat homely effigies mighthave been had not Greek influence touched this Romanportraiture into new artistic life. On the other hand, astudy of the Greek busts… … ROMAN PORTRAITURE 351 which had ah-eady set in, towards greater individual-ism.* It is usual to speak of Greek art as ideal and ofRoman as realistic. But since there can be no artisticachievement without an informing idea, it is evidentlyabsurd to talk of a realistic as opposed to an idealisticart.…
Sculpture, Roman · Sculpture, Greco-Roman
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