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Excerpt from Florence, Vol. 2 of 2
Many reasons militated against the creation Of a national school at Rome, for the national genius of the Romans did not impel them to the cultivation of art, and, caring more for war, politics, and legislation, they even passed laws forbidding the representation Of the human figure. For a period Of a hundred and fifty years religion was altogether spiritual, but King Numa, who had legislated in this matter, accorded his protection to the foreign colony Of Greek and Etras can artists; and corporations of goldsmiths, and of workers in bronze, terracotta, etc. Were formed. The elder Tarquin, wishing to erect a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus, infringed the laws Of Numa, and intrusted the execution of the statue to Vulcanius, an artist of Veii. Then followed five centuries of stagnation, in the course of which it would be dificult to mention the name of a single Roman sculptor as gifted as Mamurius Vetturius, whom Numa employed to make the eleven copies Of the Ancyle, or sacred shield, which fell from heaven during the pestilence.'
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