A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 422
uare pedestal of the height of 10 ft.The shaft, 13 ft. in diameter at the baseand 12 ft. at the top, is formed of twenty-eight drums, and is sculjitured with theRoman campaigns against the Marcoman-ni and kindred peoples, in high relief andin a somewhat hard and dry style, occupy-ing a spiral of… … Fig. 169. -Rome, Column of Marcus Aurelius. monument to Antoninus Iius. is incorrect.In the interior of the shaft there is a.winding stair leading to the top of the capi-tal, on which stands, since 1580, a gildedbronze statue of St. Paul, 13 ft. higii.placed there by Sixtus V. {See Fif/.…
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