Adlocutio Of Marcus Aurelius. This scene from Marcus's column (A.D. 180-95) can be compared with the same subject on the column of Trajan
three quarters of a century earlier. The elimination of landscape, the more repetitive poses of the figures, the tendency to arrange figures in two
distinct tiers, the reliance on drill-grooves to model drapery, the stumpy proportions of the figures, and above all the frontality of the imperial
group, all foretoken the end of classical art.
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