Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907) (14594447500)

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



Text Appearing Before Image:
us specu-lations, of the period. But the head of the Dionysos(Plate LXXVI.) also has distinct affinities of techniquewith certain Hadrianic portraits. The eye-balls areplastically indicated, and the hair combines a certainGreek quality of linear design with the more summaryRoman manner of indicating the masses by modelling.In these respects it may be compared with the portrait ofa young girl from the period of Hadrian (Plate CXVHI.).Other Hadrianic artists reached back beyond thefifth century for their inspiration. A statue of SemoSancus in the Galleria de Candelabri of the Vatican(Helbig, 368), the inscription of which points to thesecond century A.n. (C.I.L., vi. 30997), shows thisRoman agrarian divinity in the pose of an archaicGreek type of Apollo created by Kanachos of Sikyon.Neither body nor head, however, is a copy. Helbigwell remarks that the sculptor has observed the prin-ciples of the archaic only in the design and in the main♦ See the literature cited by Helbig, loc. cit.
Text Appearing After Image:
HIOAD OK TllKUIONYSOS FKOM VILLA AUUIANA .ln(l,r.-<, To fa a- p. 2)8 Mimeo (telle Terme THE PRINCIPATE OF HADRIAN 249 forms of the statue, while aUke in rendering the nudeand the hair, he has followed a less constrained methodof treatment. The Antinous.—The supreme and most characteristicachievement, however, of the Hadrianic period wasthe creation of the type of Antinous. It is the triumphof original thought over eclecticism of form. Thetype can be analysed back into its constituent parts,and each of these may be discovered to be Greek.None the less the whole remains one of the mostpowerful presentments invented by the sculptors genius.In it is summed up the whole spirit of that strangeHadrianic period with its intellectual, unansweredcuriosities and unappeased longings, its sensuousillusions and tragic scepticism. As the Antinous is thelast of the great classic types given to the world bythe antique, so also is it among the most powerful andmajestic. The grand head of Antinous