The Severans by Michael Grant

Author:Michael Grant [Grant, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, General
ISBN: 9780415127721
Google: sCYMAm1k4KwC
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996-01-15T01:21:16+00:00

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Art and Architecture

The characteristically Roman method of depicting the emperor’s achievements upon a relief had already found important expression in Augustus’s Altar of Peace, the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum, Trajan’s Column in the Forum of Trajan and the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome’s Piazza Colonna.

The reliefs of the Arch of Septimius Severus in the Forum at Rome (AD 203, Plate 27) are worse preserved than those of the Column of Marcus, but not entirely different in character. Yet there has been a development, for the figures are more squat; and an intricate division between scenes, shown in a bird’s-eye perspective, conveys the impression of a textile surface. Probably this sort of pattern was inspired by popular paintings, now vanished, such as those which Septimius exhibited at his Parthian Triumph.

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