The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 34
HONORIUS 21 tius, in 315, appears to surpass the earlier arch of Septimius Severus. This impression vanishes as we find, on analysis, that it lacks the unity of a single work and age ; that it is mainly composed of the spoils of a number of earlier struc- tures; and that it is these borrowed… … and several memorial arches torn down. The great attic re- liefs are from an arch of Marcus Aurelius or Lucius Verus; the medallions from some other early arch; the great battle scenes are from Trajan's Forum. Even the lines of the archi- tectural framework, the main cornice and the columns that…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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