The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 258
f the face so characteristic of Arnolfo, used in somasterly a manner as to be by none but the master. It is, infact, superior to the authenticated statue of Boniface VIII.The handling of the drapery is equally masterly in its feelingfor textures. This tomb should be restored with basement andcanopy… … Detail of Opening to Chapel of the Presepe, S. Maria Maggiore.A Prophet, by Arnolfo. nearly all the works of art in the old basilica when it was torndown. Only the recumbent statue was saved and transferredto decorate the tomb of the Savelli family (to which the Popebelonged) in the church of…
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