Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 144
ew of these works which can be dated the most important inmany ways are the sarcophagi of Helena and Constantia, of thetime of Constantine, which have been removed from the mortuarychapels bearing their names to the Museum of the Vatican. Thesculptures in high-relief upon these gigantic coffers of… … Fig. 61.—Relief carved upon a Sarcophagus in the Museum of the Lateran. Themes more peculiarly Christian are introduced upon two sarcoph-agi of about the same period: that of Junius Bassus (f 359), inthe Crypt of the Vatican, and that of Anicius Probus (f 395), inthe Pieta Chapel of St. Peters. The…
Art, Medieval
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