Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . LADY AND HEIl DAlCHTKi;, I-[,AVIAN EroCHTo face p. 366 Chalaicurth I. ROMAN PORTRAITURE 367 lean up against her mothers chair and place her handon hers (Plate CXV.). The high coiffure was not affected outside court orfashionable circles. On the tomb of the Haterii it isnot worn by the wife of the physician. Nor is it wornby the old lady, whose bust in the Museo delle Terme(Plate CXVI.) is here published for the first time(Mariani-Vaglieri, Guida, p. 8, No. 5).* It is a finehead, not entirely unworthy of ranking with the shoemaker and the Vespasian
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . LADY AND HEIl DAlCHTKi;, I-[,AVIAN EroCHTo face p. 366 Chalaicurth I. ROMAN PORTRAITURE 367 lean up against her mothers chair and place her handon hers (Plate CXV.). The high coiffure was not affected outside court orfashionable circles. On the tomb of the Haterii it isnot worn by the wife of the physician. Nor is it wornby the old lady, whose bust in the Museo delle Terme(Plate CXVI.) is here published for the first time(Mariani-Vaglieri, Guida, p. 8, No. 5).* It is a finehead, not entirely unworthy of ranking with the shoemaker and the Vespasian. None of the heads labelled Nerva quite tally withthe magnificent profile on his coins (Bernoulli ii. 2,MiJnztaf ii. 17-19). The colossal torso in the Rotondaof the Vatican f is superb, but is it Nerva ? The kindly yet sad features of Trajan, his furrowedface, his lank hair, combed low on the forehead, arefamiliar from countless busts and statues. | There is aworried look about most of these portraits, contrastingwith the serenity of the head on the coinage (Plate CX.,9). The two busts of boys in the Museo Chi
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