Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 640
novation in the treatment of the eye, pointedout by Riegl. It consists in showing the iris as abean-shaped segment filled with two dots to indicatethe points of light.f This plastic indication of thepupil had already made its appearance in relief as early * Museo delle Terme, Mariani-Vaglieri, p.… … COMMODUS AS UKltCULESTofitwp. 37i P(ila::odei Conserratnri ROMAN PORTRAITURE 375 as on the Ara Pads, but it is not adopted for singleportraits till the period of Hadrian. It is, however, inthe busts of Commodus that we first find the device usedfor obtaining effects closely observed from the…
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