Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . ).Below, in an intermediate zone, are, on the left, Apollo with hislyre, riding on a griffin, and on the right, Artemis on her cuirass worn by any other prince or emperor seems to haveequalled this in splendour. But the breast-plate worn by aprince of the Julio-Claudian house in the Lateran (from Cervetri,Helbig, No. 670) is also of great beauty. The designs, thoughsimple, resemble those on the Augustan breastplate. These Im-perial cuirasses have been studied by Von Rohden in Bonnerstudien, 1890, pp. 1-20 ; cf. also the careful list drawn
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . ).Below, in an intermediate zone, are, on the left, Apollo with hislyre, riding on a griffin, and on the right, Artemis on her cuirass worn by any other prince or emperor seems to haveequalled this in splendour. But the breast-plate worn by aprince of the Julio-Claudian house in the Lateran (from Cervetri,Helbig, No. 670) is also of great beauty. The designs, thoughsimple, resemble those on the Augustan breastplate. These Im-perial cuirasses have been studied by Von Rohden in Bonnerstudien, 1890, pp. 1-20 ; cf. also the careful list drawn up byWarwick Wroth, Journal of Hellenic Studies, vii. 1886, * This fringe is as alive with movement as the marvellousfringe of the chair inTitiansCAar/es the Munich Pinacothek. •f I do not share Mr. Waces views of the portraiture ofAugustus, I do not precisely know what he means by the eyes stare vacantly, except that the pupil is not indicatedany more than it is on other portraits of this or preceding roiniiAiT or a boy, augustan period To face p. 35G Miisco Bairacco ROMAN PORTRAITURE 357 are characteristics which reappear more or less markedlyin other members of the Julio-Claudian family. No-where is the sculpturesque beauty of this group ofportraits more keenly perceived than in the heads ofchildren. One, worthy to take rank with the childrenof Donatello, is again in the Museo Barracco, and isnow published for the first time (Plates CVII., CVIII.).*The face is less generalized than in the older person-ages ; nothing can exceed the alert, distinguished poseof the head, the fine setting of the eye, the full yetaristocratic lines of the childish mouth, the firmdrawing of the hair. A little head in the MuseoChiaramonti also has remarkable distinction (Ame-lung, 423). A bronze bust of a boy, of singularbeauty of form and technique, was exhibited in1903 at the Burlington Fine Arts Another,cut out of hard basalt like the Barracco Ca?
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