The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 89
to rest here. Bodies com-mitted to the river (along with the suitable burial fees) 58 ROMAN PERIOD. were sure to reach the Alyscamps. It was celebrated bythe poets Dante and Ariosto, and became of world-widefame. Chapels and churches were erected in the vicinity,there being no less than nineteen at… … FIG. 13. THE ALYSCAMPS. During its palmy days in the early centuries, this ceme-tery had become greatly enriched with splendid monumentsand sarcophagi, partly heathen and partly Christian, butall designed and executed after the Roman or Grecianmanner. At the Renaissance these ancient classic…
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