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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sibly this timefrom the Arch of Vespasian and Titus dedicated in B.C.81 in Cxrco Maximo. The second relief in the Belvedere t contains the firstpart of a triumphal cortege—a group of horsemen andlictors with the goddess Roma preceding the Imperialchariot, only the foremost of whom are seen advancingfrom the left. The rest of the composition is lost.In its present mutilated and restored state it is impos-sible to derive any clear aesthetic impressions from thisrelief. The design, though sufficiently animated, seemsonly mediocre, and since we are assured that the reliefextended no further at the top, it is evident that theartist no longer has the sense of spatial compositionwhich we admired on the panels of the Arch of Titus. % * W. Amelung, Catalog des Vatikanischen Museums, vol. i..No. 152. t Helbig, Fuhrer, No. 163 ; Wace, P.B.S.R., iii. p. 283,Fig. I. X It is hardly worthy of either Riegl or Mr. Wace (op. cit. p. 278)to assert that this open ground (in the Arch of Titus) is intro-
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t i;: 1 FLAVIAN RELIEF 143 Nor, so far as the fragment enables us to judge, doesthe open ground appear to have been abandoned, asin the later monuments, in favour of some other artisticdevice. The general Flavian character, however, isincontestable. Far more beautiful as works of art aresix heads from some great composition in relief, whichnow lie in Room VIII. of the Lateran. Mr. Wace (loc.cit. p. 285) rightly detects their Flavian style, and fromthe appearance among them of a female head, pre-sumably of a Roma, conjectures that they all be-longed to a processional relief decorating an aich orsimilar monument. Thus it would seem that, beside the Arch of Titus,which is properly Domitianic in point of time, thedecorations of two, if not three, of the many archeswhich Domitian set up are extant. Finally three morereliefs have—though as yet only tentatively—beenbrought within the Flavian range by the same Englishscholars. Two of these are walled up in the Villa Medici(Plate XLIII., a

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