Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 666
ms later than the statue, and probably doesnot belong to it. (From a photograph by Dr. Ashby.) % I feel that a recent writer on Roman portraits strangelymisunderstands the characteristics of frontality, when hesays that the Constantinian portrait first shows the truesolidity, the perfect roundness… … ROMAN PORTRAITURE 385 They are the beginning of the splendid figure sculp-ture of the Middle Ages. In them are the germs of thatwonderful Romanesque which will find its noblestexpression in the great French schools of cathedralsculpture in the twelfth century, as at Chartres, forinstance, in those…
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