Horses are excellently portrayed, the attitudes being varied, and the heads especially delineated with great spirit.

Mules and camels are well expressed, but have scarcely the vigor of the horses.

Horned cattle, as oxen, both with and without humps, goats, and sheep are very skilfully treated, being represented with much character, in natural yet varied attitudes, and often admirably grouped.
[Illustration: PLATE 67] [Illustration: PLATE 68] The composition during this period is more complicated and more ambitious than during the preceding one; but it may be questioned whether it is so effective.

No single scene of the time can compare for grandeur with the lion-hunt above described.

The battles and siege are spirited, but want unity; the hunting scenes are comparatively tame; the representations of the transport of colossal bulls possess more interest than artistic merit.