The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 263
sharp and awkwardboth in drapery and flesh. In the monument of Cardinal deSurdis at S. Balbina (1302), Giovanni is at his best: the faceis perfectly expressive of sleep and the body is really resting,not uncomfortably perched sideways. If the statue of BishopDurand at S. Maria sopra Minerva were… … Figure Irom De Surdis Tomb at 8. Bulbiua.By Giovanni Cosmati. in suppleness. The angels holding up the ends of the draperythat surrounds the cenotaph are graceful and quite a contrastto the restless angels of the De Braye tomb. Of almost precisely the same design is the unsigned monu-ment of…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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