Tuscan sculptors: their lives, works, and times. With illustrations from original drawings and photographs (1864)
Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green · leaf 60
xliii CHRISTIAN SCULPTURE. The oldest known statue in marble is that of St. Hippolytus, in the Christian Museum at the Lateran Palace, probably made in the sixth century, of which the lower portion only is old, and the upper a modern restoration devoid of character. Two small statues of the Good… … Pastor Bonus. peror Leo, to whom he was sent as a host- (Lateran Museum.) age, although completely illiterate,3 had a great respect for the remains of antiquity, and did much towards saving the buildings and statues in Italy from further destruction in the latter half 1 St. Hippolytus was Bishop of…
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