The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 262
acoeli. Tlie De Surdistomb is mutilated. All the others show the same type of adouble base surmounted by the reclining figure, with an angelat head and foot handling the hangings that encircle the figureat back and sides. The whole is surrounded by a tabernacle,formed by a trefoil gable resting on… … Tuiub ul I .uU.^.il .lAccjiiasparta,S. Maria in Aracoeli.By Giovanni Cosmati. 252 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS transitions between planes are rather sharp and awkwardboth in drapery and flesh. In the monument of Cardinal deSurdis at S. Balbina (1302), Giovanni is at his best: the faceis…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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