Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . he temple. As workmanship it is of a high order ofmerit. The restrained dignity, the quiet attitudes, thedistinguished technique (note the unrestored faces inthe background and the treatment of the hair) place itfar above the coarser work of the three Hadrianic panelsin the Palace of the Conservatori. The skilful spacingand the relation of the figures to the columns of thebackground recall, in a certain measure, the Chatsworthfragment.* (Plate LXII.) This relief shows how vital Domitianic and Trajanicinfluences still were under Hadrian. The Temple
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . he temple. As workmanship it is of a high order ofmerit. The restrained dignity, the quiet attitudes, thedistinguished technique (note the unrestored faces inthe background and the treatment of the hair) place itfar above the coarser work of the three Hadrianic panelsin the Palace of the Conservatori. The skilful spacingand the relation of the figures to the columns of thebackground recall, in a certain measure, the Chatsworthfragment.* (Plate LXII.) This relief shows how vital Domitianic and Trajanicinfluences still were under Hadrian. The Temple ofVenus and Roma cannot be dated earlier than of the four heads of the background, which areentirely preserved, three it is noteworthy are cleanshaven, as under Trajan—only the first on the left new-born god the first-fruits of their flocks. C. Bigg, TheChurchs Task under the Roman Empire, p. 52. * Moreover, the heads of the two personages in the frontrow,whether restored by Thorwaldsen or another, are of THE PRINCIPATE OF HADRIAN 241 wears a slight beard, thus favouring the fashion intro-duced by Hadrian.* Hadrianic Altai- from Ostia in the Terme.—Anothervery beautiful sculptured version of the legend otRomulus and Remus occurs on an altar from Ostia,now placed in cell B off the north cloister of theMuseo delle The inscription on the plinth( XIV., 5) records the dedication of the altar in124 (under Hadrian therefore) to Silvanus andother deities by one P. Aelius Syneros, the freedman ofP. Aelius Trophimus, Procurator of the Province ofCrete. Those accordingly who will not allow that any-thing good could be produced later than the Trajanicepoch, at the utmost, maintain that the sculptures must,because of their excellence, be earlier than the inscription,and they proceed to assign the sculptured decorationeither to the period of Trajan or even as far back as tothe principate of Augustus. Those who are familiarwith the s
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