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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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theRomans apparently proceed to destroy. In the foregroundon the right are horses grazing (VII., Plates 13B-14).The army, however, cannot have been far off, for inScene VIII. we see the emperor outside his tent, accom-panied by the usual staff. He receives the submissionof the German chiefs, while two Germans lie dead in theforeground (Plate 15). Then Marcus, standing on raisedground, with Bassaeus and another on either side of him,appears to read from a roll an edict to the soldiery (IX.,Plate I 6a). Further on a river rushes down ; on the leftbank four rough looking Germans, with large stones inthe folds of their cloaks (X., Plate i6b), watch for anopportunity of throwing their missiles at the Romanemperor, who, with his guard, is seen on the right bankissuing from a fortified camp. This second scene is ofsingular beauty, showing a sense of spatial composition inadvance of the Trajan column. The unusual tolerance ofempty space enables the artist to establish a finer and PLATE LXXXV
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MAKCUS WITH HIS GUAKD OUTSIDE A CAMP Column o/Marcus AureUus ri.ATK I.W.WI

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