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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4940611, member: 110504&quot;]Oh, Wow, these are all great examples.&nbsp; To my horror and dismay, I can&#039;t find pics of any of mine.&nbsp; But, [USER=75143]@hotwheelsearl[/USER] ...or anyone else who cares to comment, is the transition from the mostly Gallic radiates to the dominant Constantinian prototype as seamless as that?&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen some, at least, of the latter attributed to a relatively little known Germanic tribe, vaguely just east of the southern Rhine.&nbsp; ...Granted, it&#039;s sounding as if at least some substantive scholarship has been done on this since then.</p><p>...And what about the imitations of prototypes later in the 4th century?&nbsp; ...It&#039;s already smelling as if I should take another look at someone&#039;s (--Sorry, and Thank you) thread on this subject, maybe a couple of weeks back.</p><p>Meanwhile, as you noted (as did other people here --or at least, this will be intuitively obvious to y&#039;all), the level of abstraction, in capable hands, can be beautiful in its own right.&nbsp; At this or that interval, there&#039;s a &#039;tipping point,&#039; where one aesthetic is effectively replaced by another.&nbsp; ...As in, &#039;we&#039;re not in Kansas anymore.&#039;&nbsp; They called the Cubists &#039;ugly,&#039; and the Impressionists before that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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