A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 240
-bolism is almost entirely absent, and the sculpture consists for the most part of figuresubjects. The centre of the face of the sarcophagus is generally occupied by a roundpanel containing the effigy of the person there entombed, — often of two persons, theman and his wife, or two brothers. —… … Fig. loo. Column of Mareian, Constantinople. 214 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY sciil})tor, cut loose from the classic traditions, had created a new and])erfectly characteristic school of decorative sculpture. Perhaps theearliest example which remains to us is the capital of the colunniof Marcian, which…
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