The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 251
inferior to its moreclassic immediate predecessor, the statue of the EmperorFrederic at Capua. The king wears a crown and holds asceptre, but this mediaevalism is tempered by a Eoman cos-tume and the curule chair. The stern face, with its prominentfeatures, and the large head form a carefully… … Top of PaschalCandlestick atCathedral, SCULPTURE 241 This statue, the second of its class in Italy, has been attrib-uted to Arnolfo, the Florentine architect and sculptor, and hasbeen used as an argument for assigning to the same artist thebronze statue of S. Peter, for which I have adhered to the…
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