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 IV. Roman Sculpture. The Romans were not, strictly speaking, an artistic people — that is to say, they created no ideal or original forms in art ; but they were well able to appreciate the Fig. 87. — The Apollo Belvedere. In the Vatican. beauty of the works of others, and to their liberal patron- age we owe many fine works by Greek artists produced after the subjugation of Greece by the Romans, and second only in beauty to those which came from the hand of