\f1 \fs22 The physical features of the faces of emperors, magistrates, soldiers, and ordinary people were faithfull
y reproduced down to the smallest detail in public sculptures and on tombs. The historical narrative relief, of which the figured frieze of \b \cf4 \ATXht164 Trajan\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 's column is the finest example, was born out of the need to illustrate m
ilitary exploits and public and religious events in which the true protagonists of the action were men, and not gods. Great realism was also used in the scenes of everyday life represented in funeral reliefs, found in large numbers in every city of the E
