Identifier: romansculpturefr00stro (find matches)
Title: Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Strong, Eugénie Sellers
Subjects: Sculpture, Roman Sculpture, Greco-Roman
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lia Paula, the first wife ofElagabalus (Plate CXXVI., No. 8), with the freshterseness of the profile and the dainty lines of thehair. The Return to Frontality.—A definite change makesitself felt when, by the influence of the same opticprinciples that obtained in relief sculpture, works inthe round also make for isolation of the individual forms.The new mood now stealing over sculpture is apparent ina portrait-bust at Chatsworth of a man holding a roll inhis left hand (Plate CXXVIII.). The bust is of typicalthird-century shape ;f the hair is worked according tothe light and dark optic principle, the pose of thehead still recalls the Caracallus, the glance of the eye * Furtwangler, Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxi. 1901, p. 225,and Fig. 5 : Our bust is an extremely good work of its time,and is, moreover, distinguished by its excellent preservation. •f Furtwangler, loc. cit. Reproduced here from the originalphotograph kindly lent by Professor Furtwangler. The bustis quite unrestored.
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