Five Italian shrines; an account of the monumental tombs of S. Augustine at Pavia, S. Dominic at Bologna, S. Peter Martyr at Milan, S. Donato at Arezzo, and of Orcagna's tabernacolo at Florence, with a prefatory essay on Tuscan sculpture (1906)
Waters, W. G. (William George), 1844-1928 · London : J. Murray · leaf 132
ctically made Fra Guglielmossarcophagus the centre of a design of his own.The canopy is enriched with scale-pattern carving,and surmounted by a frieze on which reliefs ofangels are sculptured. A bold volute springsfrom each angle of the canopy, the junction of thefour being terminated by a… … THE GRADI NO OF THE MONUMENT 95 S. Proculus, S. John Baptist, and S. Petronius.In 1521 Michael Angelo, who was then anexile in Bologna, is said to have worked at thedrapery of the statue of S. Petronius, and tohave executed the right-hand one of the kneelingangels below, the one on the left having…
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