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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 86

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-. The sarcopha-gus (Fig. 15), with aninscription and twowell carved festoons,is called the Tomb ofCornelia. Fig. 16shews a finely car\edoak wreath and vaseon the monument tothe good Goddess,and a beautifullysculptured thoughmutilated bust of theEmpress Livia. Fig.17 represents a frag-ment of very… … FIG. 16. FROM ARLES MLSEVM. 62 ROMAN PERIOD. Christian monuments. That in Fig. 18, representing scenesfrom the Hfe of our Saviour, exhibits figures carved in theRoman manner, and wearing the Roman costume, butdegraded in style,—evidently the work of the Low Empire.

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