Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 65
their wisdom that the wolf is neither fine enoughto be counted as Greek nor yet sufficiently coarse to be attri-buted to Roman artists. But who, outside Egypt, could so well asa Roman have constructed that massive frame, or given expressionto such impassive majesty ? If we knew even less of native… … THE AUGUSTAN AGE 31 place here to recall briefly some of its merits. In theirwall-paintings, many of which we can still admire inthe splendid tombs of Orvieto and Corneto, the Etrus-cans show themselves the worthy ancestors of the greatTuscan masters of the early Renaissance ; in reliefs suchas…
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