Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . ly that of Plotina, it wouldnaturally be followed by some edict in her honour. Weknow that Hadrian made a special case of the lady towhom he owed the Empire, that he granted her, besidethe apotheosis, every sort of honour, wore a garmentof a dark colour for nine days, built a temple to her, andcomposed hymns to her.* Relief with the Temple of Vemus ami Roma.—It is well known that Hadrian, with that infiniteintellectual curiosity which reminds one of a certainmodern Imperial personage, prided himself on his ownartistic attainments. We would give mu
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . ly that of Plotina, it wouldnaturally be followed by some edict in her honour. Weknow that Hadrian made a special case of the lady towhom he owed the Empire, that he granted her, besidethe apotheosis, every sort of honour, wore a garmentof a dark colour for nine days, built a temple to her, andcomposed hymns to her.* Relief with the Temple of Vemus ami Roma.—It is well known that Hadrian, with that infiniteintellectual curiosity which reminds one of a certainmodern Imperial personage, prided himself on his ownartistic attainments. We would give much to knowmore of the sculptured decorations of the double Templeof Venus and Roma, erected, it is said, after thegifted Emperors plans, criticism of which cost, it issaid, Apollodorus his By good fortune, however,we can form some notion of the pedimental gi-oupbelonging to the facade on the Sacra Via, from two * Dio Ixix. ch. 10 ; ed. Boissevain, iii. p. For the sources and evidence, see Pauly-Wissowa, ,No. 73. PLATE LXXII. PASSIXG IX FKOXT OF TKMPLK (IK VKXIS AXD KOMA To face p. 2 Frai/iiirnts in TmiH- and Lulcran THE PRINCIPATE OF HADRIAN 239 fragments respectively in the Lateran and the Museodelle Terme,* which have been astutely fitted togetherby Petersen. The fragment, as now reconstituted,shows the Emperor Hadrian (Thorwaldsen wronglyrestored the head as Trajan), accompanied by lictors,passing in front of a temple, of which one half, withits five columns, is preserved. The whole temple frontwas accordingly dekastyle, and therefore represents theTemple of Venus and Koma, which was singular amongall other Roman temples both for its double cellasjoined back to back and for its ten columns at The pedimental group is much defaced, but wecan still make out the subject and the main lines ofthe composition. \ In the centre Mars is seenapproaching Rhea Sylvia; on the left the twinsRomulus and Remus are already being suckled by thewolf wh
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