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Defining the Column's Artistic Style Defining the Column's Artistic Style
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Tradition and Innovation in Style and Composition Tradition and Innovation in Style and Composition
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Innovation in Action: The Battle Scenes Innovation in Action: The Battle Scenes
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The Source of the Column's Style The Source of the Column's Style
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The Column, Art, and Society The Column, Art, and Society
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Conclusion: The Afterlife of the Column's Style Conclusion: The Afterlife of the Column's Style
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Abstract
This chapter shows that, “compared with the noble Column of Trajan, that of Aurelius is in all ways inferior.” This was the opinion of Percy Gardner, professor of classical archaeology at Oxford University in the late nineteenth century. Gardener's views on the value of the art of the Column of Marcus Aurelius were shared by many of his contemporaries. Eugen Petersen, even after becoming intimately acquainted with the column through many weeks spent on a platform hanging from its capital, still concluded that in comparison to the richness of Trajan's Column, “the art of the Marcus Column seems poor and sober, restricted to only the most essential components.” In the eyes of these early critics the sole redeeming feature of the Column of Marcus Aurelius was that it was Roman.
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