Identifier: romansculpturefr00stro (find matches)
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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by the bull, who isbeing led forward to the front of the panel. In thepanel with the congiarinm (IX.) the Emperor and hissuite form a fine group on a raised platform, while theRoman populace arc typified by four figures below—one of whom, a man, seen from the back, places hishands on the edge of the podium and peers over it.* Anrelian Sculptures at Ephefms and Kindred Works.—The column and the reliefs just considered prove that theAntonine period deserves to rank for its artistic achieve-ments with those of Trajan, Domitian and Augustus.It was indeed an age of splendid public spirit andgreat material achievement.t We shall not be sur-prised to find its influence active also in the moredistant parts of the Empire. At Ephesus, one of themightiest centres of Hellenic art and culture fromtime immemorial, recent excavation has shown how * For an Aurelian relief of similar character to these twelve seeAppendix. ■f S. Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.p. 245- PLATE XCir
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•ANKLS IltUM A MONL.MICXT Ob MARCUS AUUlOMLtTo face p. 294 Attic of Arch of Coimtantine THE ANTONINE PERIOD 295 the imperial idea fed and vivified anew a great artistictradition. It was among the ruins of the greatLibrary of Ephesus that in the autumn of 1903were discovered a wonderful series of reliefs, whichbelonged to an honorary monument, put up apparentlyto commemorate the Parthian expedition of MarcusAurelius (161-165 a.d.). These reliefs, which are ofcolossal size, were transferred to Vienna in 1904, wherethey are at present exhibited in the Lower Belvedere.*They consist of a number of battle scenes with an inter-mingling of allegorical figures and groups. The dateis fixed by the splendid group of two Emperors, with achild between them, and two attendants. Though thefeatures are slightly idealized it is easy to recognizeMarcus Aurelius in the elder of the two. The otherEmperor is naturally the co-regent Lucius Verus, andthe child is Commodus, whom his father presses closeto h

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