History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ence, the templesand public places with a wholepopulation of statues, the pal-aces with charming frescos,the private houses with num-berless objects of art, furniture,and vases, whose exquisite elegance is revealed by the fragmentsfound at Herculaneum and Pompeii:s and all this compels us to 1 The minute operations of the gromatici, or surveyors, were also useful applications ofgeometry. - in green bronze, found at Pompeii. Museum of Naples. 3 On this question of art at Rome and in the Em
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ence, the templesand public places with a wholepopulation of statues, the pal-aces with charming frescos,the private houses with num-berless objects of art, furniture,and vases, whose exquisite elegance is revealed by the fragmentsfound at Herculaneum and Pompeii:s and all this compels us to 1 The minute operations of the gromatici, or surveyors, were also useful applications ofgeometry. - in green bronze, found at Pompeii. Museum of Naples. 3 On this question of art at Rome and in the Empire, see Friedlander, iii. beautiful statues were carved, those of Antinous. for example; but painting was alwaysneglected. Moreover, this is not the place to speak of it, One observation, however, belongsto the subject of this chapter; namely, that even under the Empire the Romans, while showingmuch love for the arts, yet held artists in small esteem, since the majority of them were oflow social position. The architects form an exception. Many Romans practised this art, the. DDEAS. 349 admit that without attaining the serene beauty of the three or four• periods when humanity found the highest expression of itsintellectual power, this period was not one of decadence. It has some remarkable agreements with our own. — great com-merce, much industry, immense public works, an extremely abundantsupply of artistic work in verse and prose, in statuary and carving,in temples and villas, but none of those artists whose name His-tory inscribes in her golden hook. In addition, gentle manners, aspirit of benevolence, and an official religion,—an objecl of ex-ternal respect, as being a means of government; but also dogmashaken by the scepticism of philosophers, the indifference of thelearned, and the scoffs of the poets, profoundly modified byforeign importations, and yet sustained by the interested adhesionof statesmen and the touching faith of the lower class
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