Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 292
254 central hall Gallienic Period (253-268 a.d.) In the Gallienic period the hair was worn fairly long, and it is treated in the portrait busts in a broad, sweeping manner, which greatly adds to the naturalistic effect. A head of a young man (No. 41, West Wall) is an excellent … FIG. 156. HERAKLES AND THE ^^-^^ ERYMANTHIAN BOAR, ARCHAISTIC the period of Constan- tine are comparatively rare; no examples are yet included in our collection. In the field of idealistic sculpture Roman art was frankly imitative. We have already described those pieces in our collection in which…
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