Speranza
Besides portraits and reliefs there are other major categories of ROMAN SCULPTURE.
ONE is what Kleiner calls the 'idealising' sculpture (I wouldn't).
--- This represents
DIVINITIES
MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES
HEROES
and
ATHLETES
with GENERIC (i.e. not portraiture) FEATURES.
While some of the statues of these subjects were
replicas of NON-ROMAN originals, some were
ROMAN PASTICHES of two or more original
prototypes.
STILL OTHERS were _NEW_ (yes: NEW) ROMAN
ORIGINAL creations
designed for SPECIFIC contexts.
FOR EXAMPLE:
the cult statue of MARTE for the TEMPLE of MARS ULTOR
in the FORUM OF AUGUSTUS.
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