Question

Compare and contrast the depiction of drapery in the statue of a Roman with busts of his ancestors (3.1.32), and the Dionysiac frieze from Pompeii (3.1.33). How has each artist created the illusion of the weight and texture of draped material? In which medium, marble or fresco painting, do you think it is more difficult to create realistic drapery?

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