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 244
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. 153. Column of Marcian, Constantinople. 214 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY sculptor, cut loose from the classic traditions, had created a new andperfectly characteristic school of decorative sculpture. Perhaps theearliest example which remains to us is the capital of the columnof Marcian, which stands…
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