. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. om a sense of the practicalfutility of telling the history of the Dacian Wars on a serpen-tine band of ornament which soared away out of sight. It israther characteristic of the plodding Roman, who so often lostsight of the wood in his faithful contemplation of the trees. Ifwe look for the end to which this art of narrative relief wastending, we shall find it on the basis of the column of AntoninusPius preserved in the Vatican These cavalrymenplacidly gyrating round the group of standard-bearers, each onhis own
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. om a sense of the practicalfutility of telling the history of the Dacian Wars on a serpen-tine band of ornament which soared away out of sight. It israther characteristic of the plodding Roman, who so often lostsight of the wood in his faithful contemplation of the trees. Ifwe look for the end to which this art of narrative relief wastending, we shall find it on the basis of the column of AntoninusPius preserved in the Vatican These cavalrymenplacidly gyrating round the group of standard-bearers, each onhis own little shelf are so extremely life-like as to recallnothing in the world so much as pieces of gingerbread. Webegin to perceive that Madame Tussaud would have beenhailed as a great creative artist in Imperial Rome. Neverthe-less, without subscribing to all the superlatives of Mrs. Strong,we may admit that Art was still alive and vigorous and stillscoring fresh technical triumphs in the Antonine period andeven later. * Plate 67, Fig. 3. f Plate 68, Fig. i. J Plate
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