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The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)

Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 154

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fell undertheir influence. Here Giotto took his first steps as an inde-pendent artist, on emerging from his Roman apprenticeship. HonoriusIV (1285-1287), though his pontificate was but brief,is closely associated with several works of art. He belonged tothe great Savelli family, munificent patrons… … Marble Statue of S. Peter.Example of adaptation of the antiqut 144 HISTORICAL SKETCH near the older fortress-palaces of the Emperor Otho and of thePierleoni. He immediately built, near the church of S. Sa-bina, in the midst of the family estate, a superb palace,where he lived. It formed the centre…

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