A history of European and American sculpture from the early Christian period to the present day (1921)
Post, Chandler Rathfon, 1881-1959 · Cambridge : Harvard University Press · leaf 28
usual number of four personifications, Truth, Charity, Jus-tice, and Wisdom. Allegories had long been a commonplace on Italiantombs, but now they are made to mourn for the deceased. They nolonger stare forth at the spectator as entities disassociated from theeffigy except in their symbolism; by… … Fig. i i 8. BERNINI. TOMB OF URBAN VIII. ST. PETERS, ROME (Photo. Fratelli Alinari)
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