The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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Page 71
... Roman copy after a bronze original , from Pergamum , c . 230-220 BC . In the Museo Nazionale Romano . ( Top ) Alinari - Art Resource / EB Inc. , ( bottom ) Anderson - Alinari from Art Resource / EB Inc. disease , low life , and even the ...
... Roman copy after a bronze original , from Pergamum , c . 230-220 BC . In the Museo Nazionale Romano . ( Top ) Alinari - Art Resource / EB Inc. , ( bottom ) Anderson - Alinari from Art Resource / EB Inc. disease , low life , and even the ...
Page 72
... Roman forum was thronged with honorific statues of Roman magistrates , which , although none of them has survived , may be assumed to have been carved or cast by Greeks because no native Roman school of sculptors of that time is known ...
... Roman forum was thronged with honorific statues of Roman magistrates , which , although none of them has survived , may be assumed to have been carved or cast by Greeks because no native Roman school of sculptors of that time is known ...
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... Roman social and religious practice , there is no basis for a belief that the Romans and Etruscans had , from early times , been in the habit of producing death masks proper , cast directly from the features of the dead . It was ...
... Roman social and religious practice , there is no basis for a belief that the Romans and Etruscans had , from early times , been in the habit of producing death masks proper , cast directly from the features of the dead . It was ...
Contents
SAN FRANCISCO | 1 |
SÃO PAULO | 6 |
SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE | 10 |
Copyright | |
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