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Title: Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Strong, Eugénie Sellers
Subjects: Sculpture, Roman Sculpture, Greco-Roman
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ng the size of the figures.This device and the broken lines of the design have arestless, almost strident effect. Moreover, the centralgroup is well-nigh offensive to our modern taste. Thepathos of the situation has not been caught by the artist.He shows neither emotional control over his subject,nor yet has he the naivete which we should find, for in-stance, in an archaic vase painting of this scene. Theconnection between Achilles and the wounded woman ispurely external. He is not really holding her, and shetamely places her arm round his neck, without in theleast clinging to him. Nor does she resemble a woundeddying woman so much as a doll feebly bending at thearticulations. There is here an obvious lack of interestin the subject. The faults which come out most con-spicuously in the central group are also apparent in therest of the design, where we have no sense of any per-vading emotion. Still, it cannot be denied that, viewedmerely as design, the sarcophagus is not without merits,
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