It was provincial, but it was in no sense unclassical.

It drew many of its details from other sources than Arezzo, but it drew them all from Greece or Rome.

Nothing either in the manner or in the matter of its decoration recalled native Gaul.

Throughout, it is imitative and conventional, and, as often happens in a conventional art, items are freely jumbled together which do not fit into any coherent story or sequence.

At its best, it is handsome enough: though its possibilities are limited by its brutal monochrome, it is no discredit to the civilization to which it belongs.