The water teems with fish, and, where the sea is represented, with crabs, turtle, star-fish, sea-serpents, and other monsters.

The woods are alive with birds; wild swine and stags people the marshes.

Nature is evidently more and more studied; and the artist takes a delight in adorning the scenes of violence, which he is forced to depict, with quiet touches of a gentle character--rustics fishing or irrigating their grounds, fish disporting themselves, birds flying from tree to tree, or watching the callow young which look up to them from the nest for protection.
In regard to human forms, no great advance marks this period.

A larger variety in their attitudes is indeed to be traced, and a greater energy and life appears in most of the figures; but there is still much the same heaviness of outline, the same over-muscularity, and the same general clumsiness and want of grace.

Animal forms show a much more considerable improvement.