Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 72
is date bythe senate. The usual explanation is that the senatedestroyed an arch of Trajan, and used the materials E 50 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. in the construction of their monument to Constantine,which would be in accordance with the custom olthe time to rifle ancient monuments of their… … Arch of Constantine, Rome. statues to new emperors by the simple expedientof cutting off the heads of the old statues, andreplacing them by new portraits. But we take leaveto offer another conjecture which we venture to thinkmore probable. The fine design and pure archi-tectural details of this…
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